This is an analysis of the poem The Burial In The Snow that begins with:
How well do I remember
Of a burial in the snow,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbabdb cebfgdXh cfiXXiji jkhkiklk cljXgigi lmgmgimX lbibXjie cfbfmmmm ckcXmbdb gmdbmbXglmilill
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010 00100001 101010 101001 0111010 00100101 10100011 110101 0101010 110101 11101011 011101 0111010 1011111 1011010 011111 1110010 1110101 1101010 010101 1101110 1010101 0111110 110101 1101010 011101 11111011 010101 0101110 100101 11101110 1010101 0101110 110111 0101110 110101 0101010 111101 1110010 110011 10011010 101101 1101110 010101 0101010 010001 10010111 11010100 1110111 111101 1011111 10111001 1101110 110101 1101010 1110101 1110010 1111001 101111101 010111 1101101 110101 0110101 111001 0101110 110111 1101010 11011011 01001100 110111 1100111 010001 0100110 110101 1010101 010101 1010111 10100001 1101110 0111001 11010111 111101 10111111 110111 11001101 011111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 227
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 86
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word snow at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Burial In The Snow;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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