This is an analysis of the poem Snow Dance For The Dead that begins with:
Dance, little children ... it is holy twilight . . .
Have you hung paper flowers about the necks of the ikons? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXb XcaXcdb eXXaacfcccd ebacXgcXgbfc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,7,11,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010001011 111101001010010 1111010111101 11101000 11001011 01110111 0101000 111011101010 1110110001 110001011101011 1010101010 0010 10001 111101010 110100001 100110010 101110110 10100110 11011110 0110111010 10111001 11010 0010001 11010111 01010 111110100 10111010 10011 1010111 1101110 010111 11010101010 1110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 298
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 33
- 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.
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