This is an analysis of the poem The First Winter Snow that begins with:

Oh, pretty girl, you have trapped
yourself in the wrong body.Twenty ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX Xa aX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101111 100011000 10111010 10011011010 11011010 110101101 1101010111 11100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 95
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 8
  • 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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  • summary of The First Winter Snow;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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