This is an analysis of the poem Snowin' that begins with:
Dey is snow upon de meddahs, dey is snow upon de hill,
An' de little branch's watahs is all glistenin' an' still;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbbXc aaXXddcc eeXcffXX ggXXbbdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010101010101 101010100110011 011101010101001 101011101110001 101000101010101 101011101011001 111111111110001 101011101110111 111010101110101 111010110010111 10101011011101 10101011010101 101011011111100 10111101011110001 1111111010111101 111011111110101 111110101110101 111111101111101 011111101111101 111011101111111 1110111101010101 111011101111101 1011101011110101 11110101111110101 111101101110111 111011111010101 1110111011110101 111011100010111 1111110101111101 1111111101110101 11111010111111101 101110101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 492
- Average number of words per stanza: 104
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, an', dey, i, stan', kin, 's, you, o' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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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