This is an analysis of the poem The Snow Man that begins with:
One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc Xda Xeb eedcXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 11101010 00101101 00111001 1101011 00101001001 0101001010 00101011101 010100001001 0010011 1001001 10011 101000111 10100110001 1100110 101011101010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
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