This is an analysis of the poem I Shall Never Love The Snow Again that begins with:

I never shall love the snow again
Since Maurice died:... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaab Xcddc bbbbb dedde cXccX dfddf Xegge
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110110101 1101 010010101 110001001 0101 010100110 1101 11110111 01011101 00101 11011101 01001 1100101111 010110101 11011 110111111 0101 010101101 11111111 101011 1101110101 1011 11111101 111110111 11010 11111111 1101 1010101 0100011111 1101 11110110 1111 010110011 111101001 1001
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, we are repeated.

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

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