This is an analysis of the poem Snow Storm that begins with:
What a night! The wind howls, hisses, and but stops
To howl more loud, while the snow volley keeps... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaabccdXdc dXdeebfbbffbgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10101110111 0111101101 0101010101 1011011101 1001010101 11001011001 0111011101 1001010101 0111011101 01010010111 01010011001 1101111110 1101110101 1111011101 0111010001 1101110100 0101110001 1111011101 0101100101 1101010101 1101001101 1111110001 1101110101 1111111101 1101110101 1101111110 0110111111 1101111111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 620
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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