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 |
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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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