Analysis of The Winter Snows
Planting words inside my garden,
watering them at will
Staking memories long forgotten,
feelings cold and shrill
Row by row the letters planted,
phrases start to grow
Whose cool fall day a harvest brings
—to feed the winter snows
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)
Scheme | AB AB XX XX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101110 100111 101001010 10101 11101010 10111 11110101 110101 01001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 269 |
Words | 43 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 43 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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