This is an analysis of the poem Snow-Flakes. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Second) that begins with:
Out of the bosom of the Air
Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dbdbee afafff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010001 10011001010 10011111 100101010 101111 0101 101110101 10010101010 101010111 001100010 010101 0101 00010001 10010100010 00010001 100101010 110101 0111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words out, over, the are repeated.
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- summary of Snow-Flakes. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Second);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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