This is an analysis of the poem To A Lost Love that begins with:
COLD snowdrops which the shrinking new-born year
Sends like the dove from out the storm-tost ark ;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab bcbc dcdc efef ghgh XiXi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010111 1101010111 1100111101 01010010001 11000110101 0101010111 1110001111 1101110111 111010001001 10010100101 1111111101 1101 1111111111 1101111111 1111000101 1101111111 1111010010010 1111010101 11111101010 1111010111 1111010111 1111000101 1011000100 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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, you, like, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word like is repeated.
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