Analysis of Snow or Snowdrops?
Mathilde Blind 1841 (Mannheim) – 1896 (London)
Is it snow or snowdrops' shimmer
Whitens thus the bladed grass,
With a faint aërial glimmer,--
Spring or winter, which did pass?
For the sky is dim and tender
With an evanescent light,
And the fading fields are white,
White with snow or snowdrops, under
The fair firstling stars of night.
Little robin, softly, cheerly
Piping on yon wintry bough,
Why have all the fields that pearly
Iridescence, knowest thou?
Did old Winter, grim and hoary,
Aim a parting dart at Spring
As she fled on azure wing,
Or did she with rainbow glory
In his face her snowdrops fling?
Scheme | ABABACCAC DEDEFGGFG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110 110101 10101010 1110111 10111010 110101 0010111 1111110 011111 1010101 1011101 11101110 111 11101010 1010111 1111101 1111110 011011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 569 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 9 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 220 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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