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

The bare branches rose against the gray sky.
Under them, freshly fallen, snow shone to the eye.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc dd dd ee ff ee dd gg hh XX ii eeXff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0110101011 100101011001 1011100101 10110100100101 001101101101 11010100101001 0110010010100101 1111110010111 101111010101 110101110011 11101011011001 101100100110011 1101010100101 010010110111 0010011011101 1101001010011 11010011111001 0011011110101 1101001011101 10100101011001 1101011011 1110111001001 01001010111100 110100101011000 111001110101 10001001101101 1001010101111 01110111011 101011111101 10011110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 107
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, of, it, and, from are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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