Analysis of Snowfall
and in the morning
as we set out
finding in the night that
snow did fall down
‘tis but a light skiff
pavement does glisten
with moisture does gleam
with thin icing of white
gladly we start out
on long morning stroll
cheeks do turn red
breath it does steam
splashing through puddles
climbing on drifts
gaily you do laugh
as you run ahead
I trudge behind you
taking it slow
knowing I’ll soon catch up
be together again
and as my eyes open
seeing the clock
reading the numbers
‘tis a quarter to four
too long are the nights now
for the hours that I sleep
time there is too much of
far more than I need
covers warm are cast back
in chill of night air
struggling to sit up
and pick up my cane
muscles are weak now
and hurt in the cold
my gait is unsteady
I am getting old
with cane I quietly
stumble around the bed
slip by your wheelchair
that stands by the bed
doctors do tell me
in voices quite hushed
that soon it will be over
and I’ll be alone
winter is coming
frozen ground far too slick
while pushing a wheelchair
on legs far too weak
yet I’ll still miss it
as I stagger along
my cane a tapping
on cold frozen ground
Scheme | ABXX XCDX BXED XXXE XXFX CXXX GXXX XHFX GIJI JEHE JXXX AXHX XXAX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 00010 1111 100011 1111 11011 10110 11011 111011 10111 11101 1111 1111 10110 1011 10111 11101 11011 1011 101111 101001 011110 1001 10010 101011 111011 1010111 111111 11111 101111 01111 100111 01111 10111 01001 111010 11101 111100 100101 1111 11101 10111 01011 1111110 01101 10110 101111 11001 11111 11111 111001 11010 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,076 |
Words | 223 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 52 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 68 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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