This is an analysis of the poem London Snow that begins with:
When men were all asleep the snow came flying, In large white flakes falling on the city brown,
Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababababacacdcdbdbebefXfgfghghfhfafa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010111001111010101 10010100010011010 100101000101 10010010001010 1001010010111 1001011011110 1010010100010 001011001010110 11011111010 0100100100010 011100111010 11110010101010 0010100110001 011001001010010 01100001000101 110110010110 10101011111 11111110110 11010101001 11010110110 1100001101001 1101010011010 111011111101 01010111110 10001010101 010100101010 11010010101 1011111101 0100110101001 111101101001 1101111010 11111011111 110100111010 1101001010010 010101111010 10100101101011110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1871
- Average number of words per stanza: 322
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, or are repeated.
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