This is an analysis of the poem Postponement that begins with:
SNOW-BOUND in woodland, a mournful word,
Dropt now and then from the bill of a bird,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaB cccX aaaB cccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 110110101 1111001001 111111111 10010 10100100101 101011101 111100101 10010 1011111101 01010101 1010111111 10010 101101111 101101101 1111101 100100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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