Analysis of What The Snow Man Said
Vachel Lindsay 1879 (Springfield) – 1931 (Springfield)
The Moon’s a snowball. See the drifts
Of white that cross the sphere.
The Moon’s a snowball, melted down
A dozen times a year.
Yet rolled again in hot July
When all my days are done
And cool to greet the weary eye
After the scorching sun.
The moon’s a piece of winter fair
Renewed the year around,
Behold it, deathless and unstained,
Above the grimy ground!
It rolls on high so brave and white
Where the clear air-rivers flow,
Proclaiming Christmas all the time
And the glory of the snow!
Scheme | XAXA BCBC XDXD XEXE |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 0101101 111101 0101101 010101 1101011 111111 01110101 100101 01011101 010101 0111001 010101 11111101 1011101 01010101 0010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 487 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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