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

’Twas near the close of the dying year,
And December’s winds blew cold and drear,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbbcc ddccee ffeegg eeffhh eeffaa hhiihh eebbjjXiiaaee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 110100101 110011111 100111101 01011111 101101101 0010111101 110101011 110100111 11110010111 111100111 1101110101 011100101 101110101 011101101 010101011 100111001 110101111 111101101 100101001 011100101 110101111 110101101 110011101 110010101 110101101 111111101 100101111 11100110101 1101111001 11010101 011011111 110110111 101001001 100100101 110111111 110010101 110111101 110101001 1011000111 0101001001 0101100111 100100101 111110101 0101101101 0010100111 001111101 11011111011 1110010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; and, of, to are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Beneath The Snow;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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