This is an analysis of the poem Under The Christmas Snow that begins with:
Most lives lie more in the shadow, I think, than in the sun,
And the shadow from some is lifted only when life is done; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb aabb ccbb ddee ffaa ggdd ggff bbggXggff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11110011111001 101101010101101 11111101111101 11001110100101 110110101110101 111110111100101 011010101011101 111111100101111 110110101100101 1010101010111001 010010101101111 0100100101110111 01001001011100101 0011010010110001 1110111010100101 1110100101110101 01101010111000111 011110101110101 0101100101110101 010010101100101 110001010101101 10111101100101 1011110101111 1101110110001 11110010111111 11010100101011 001001011100101 1101010110101 11010011110101 1101001010011 1111010111101 1101010101111 11110101100101 111110110110111 110111010111101 1110111100100101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 245
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, i, her, and, again, as, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, she are repeated.
The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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