Analysis of First Winter Snow



Cupped-hands blessed the first winter snow –
That tasted like peppermint wind

The pines and aspens share secrets,
As they whisper what they know

Then, they giggled like schoolchildren
In the snowy playground – with the red
Brick schoolhouse off in the distance

Their cold faces blinked and blushed
Like a basket full of wild freckled strawberries

Suddenly, fresh pine cones fall to the ground;
They chuckle, laugh, and then roll over,
Exposing their innocent souls to a fresh blue sky,
This all appeared in the first winter snow

This, I am sure and still are


Scheme AX XA XXX XX XXXA X
Poetic Form
Metre 11101101 1101101 01010110 1110111 1110110 00101101 1110010 1110101 10101111010 1001111101 110101110 0101100110111 1101001101 1111011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 555
Words 96
Sentences 1
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 3, 2, 4, 1
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 75
Words per stanza (avg) 16
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Written on October 14, 2021

Submitted by ggolden9 on October 14, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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