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

The three stood listening to a fresh access
Of wind that caught against the house a moment,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcde fghijkjcXfbeelilmnbjbXijjmfX XmgeiX ioofX pX lX kX heX hboofbqrkjkoroXllhhiX aX X X mX X XaaX ljhX X X X X fbgcX kX meabX X X X XbX ljjfbbijrc X eX chX dmkiifbofqacfbfaXogalcjhdfefdobemoXccbrlmX rljlbfX hbXgdghX hplX X feogalscicfcXmcsaijebjXbbX rlb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,28,6,5,2,2,2,3,21,2,1,1,2,1,4,4,1,1,1,1,5,2,5,1,1,1,3,10,1,2,3,42,7,8,4,1,26,4,12,9,12,3,7,6,2,2,1,10,2,5,1,2,3,3,2,2,1,1,1,4,4,4,3,2,2,1,1,1,4,1,1,1,2,1,1,4,2,3,1,1,1,2,1,1,2,2,1,4,1,3,4,5,6,1,1,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01110000111 01110101010 1111110101 111000011001 100100011111 10110111010 10010001110 1111010101 10011100101 10110101111 11111111110 0111110101 1101011011 11011101010 11110101110 1111101101 1111010101 0111010101 1111111111 1111010110 11111101011 11001111111 01011111010 1111111100 1101001001 11010101110 11011001111 1101111101 1011011111 1011010101 01100101010 0101010111 111101010 11 1011010101 10111101010 1111011111 1010110111 1101 111111 1111111111 1001011111 0011111111 011 11110111 11110011 1101 111110 11110 101111 1101 1111011111 11011101010 1001111111 1111001111 1101010101 0111010101 0011010101 1101010101 11011001001 1111011101 00011011110 1111010111 1100111001110 1111010101 1001111111 1011100111 1110101 1111 1011011101 1101111101 0011110111 0101100111 11111111111 1011010110 1111110 1101 111001 1101 1100111111 1101100 111 1101110101 1100100001 01010010110 1111111101 1101010001 1111110001 1101101100 11110 100111 1111011001 1101000111 1111111101 11010100001 10000111110 1101000101 111011 11110 1011110 1010 11110010101 1100100101 1001010001 1010110100 10011101110 1101 11010 1 1111110101 111111 1111 1111111100 10110101111 0011111101 01011111001 01111111010 1011111111 1111110110 1101111010 11111011010 110 110111111 1011110101 1101110111 1010110011 10111101000 1010110101 11011001010 110011100110 1100010101 1011010101 1110110101 1111010111 1101010111 10010110110 1111100111 01010001010 1111011101 01011101010 0001110111 1101000101 1101010101 01011111110 11000101110 10011101110 1010010111 1110110101 1101011101 0101110001 0101110111 01110101011 1011010001 0101011101 0101110001 0111010101 0101011001 1101000101 1101011101 1011110101 0100011111 1111011111 1111111101 1111001101 10011101110 110011110111 1111111101 11010101110 01111101110 1101010110 1011011111 1111010101 11110101011 1101110101 1101110101 1111010 1110 1101110101 1011010000 01110111000 0101011101 00110101010 1100110101 11110101010 1010111110 1110101111 0101000101 11011000100 1111010111 10110100010 1101011111 0101110101 110100111010 1001011111 1111010101 1111000111 1001010101 0101010101 1101011001 1111011111 11111111010 11111100010 1001111111 110111010010 1111110111 1011110101 0101110111 10110010101 1101011111 1001010001 1101010111 1011001101 1101011001 1001111111 1111110 110 1110010101 01110101010 1101111101 1101110101 0101010101 0111001101 11010101010 1101000111 1101101101 0101110101 1101110001 11111001010 1101010101 1111010101 1011010111 1011101011 111101110 0110100101 1101011101 11110011111 1100110010110 1111110101 1111110111 0101 111101 10111110111 1100011101 1001011111 10110001010 1100111111 01110101111 1101010101 01110111010 1011010101 101111010 101101111011 1111111011 1111011011 111011011010 11010101010 11011110010 0111110101 1101111101 1101111111 1111011001 1101 1101110 0101111101 111010010111 11011101110 0101010101 1100 111001 111111 1101 0110011101 110101110100 11010101010 111101101011 11110111001 01010101110 1101111101 10110111011 11001010111 1101010111 01110111110 01011101011 11110111100 11011111110 11011101110 11111111101 1001111111 1111101101 010111011 11 1101011101 110011011100 1101010001 1011101101 11111111 11 1101111101 11100101110 11010111110 110101 1111 11011111010 11111111010 1101011101 10110111010 1011100111 0111011101 0101011101 01011101011 1101111111 1011011101 0111110111 11011 111010 1111111101 1101110111 101111 101111 11111101111 1101011111 1101010111 11100101010 0101010111 01110001110 110110 1010 1111 111101 1101111111 111101110100 1110111101 11111 10011 1101 100101 1101110111 1101111111 11010 11101 1111011101 1101011101 10101101111 1011101101 1111 111111 111111111010 0111010101 11011111110 1110 1111010 110 1 1111101 111101 11010 1001110111 1101010111 10110 111101 10101110001 1001011111 0111011111 101010111110 1111110101 1101010101 1101110101 1010111111 01111101010 1111011001 1111110101 101111110 1 1111111111 111 1001101 10110111010 11011010110 1111101101 10110101110 11110110110 01110100111 011101111111 11111011100 1111000110 1111110000 01110111111 11110111110 11010111011 1101011001 1011110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 97
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 393
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, him, he, be, ', like, to, please, you, that, it, of, and, we, had, she, let, hear, for are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words meserve, i, it, and, so, but, this, , what are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ', him, repose, night, are repeated).

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases you, connect the lines.

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