This is an analysis of the poem The Snowdropp Monument (In Lichfield Cathedral) that begins with:
Marvels of sleep, grown cold!
Who hath not longed to fold... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccb ddecce ddcffc ddgaag hhgeeg iiaiia bbgjjg cceaae aaeeee bgkccX kkgccg kkajjX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100111 111101 01001010011 110111 010101 110101011101 111101 110101 1011010101 111101 0100111 111111110101 111101 1001001 1001111101 101101 0100101 111101010101 110101 110101 0100110111 111101 100101 1101101110001 100111 110001 11000111001 100101 110111 111011010101 100111 111111 0100010101 111111 101101 110101110001 110101 100101 0101010100 110101 110101 111101011111 111101 101101 1101110101 110111 010101 110101010001 100101 110111 0101010101 100101 110001 110101111001 110011 110101 1100010101 011101 111101 111101111101 111101 101101 1011001101 110111 111111 101111010111 111111 010001 0101101101 110011 111101 111101110100
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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; with, and, her, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word many is repeated.
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