As Soon As The Frozen Snow Melts To Go by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem As Soon As The Frozen Snow Melts To Go that begins with:

Frozen is the snow.
Melting it will go, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcXbcXa aAAAXaAAA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10001 10001 01 1010101 110101 11 10011 01 0011101 10111 00101101 1110101 101 11010101 00101101 1110101 101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4

  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word go at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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