Analysis of A Snow Storm.
I hear the wintry wind again,
I see the blinding snow,
Pil'd high, by eddying winds, in heaps,
No matter where I go.
The storm is raging hard, without;
But let us not complain,
For fiercely tho' it rages now,
A calm will come again.
And, though the wildly raging storm
Makes all things bleak and bare,
Beside the fire we brave it well,
And closer draw our chair.
In social fellowship, our hearts
With kindly thoughts grow warm;
Then is there not a pleasant side,
E'en to a raging storm?
And when the angry storm has calm'd,
As ev'ry storm must do,
Then, sure, the tempest's handiwork,
Has pleasant features, too.
An artist's eye would look around,
Upon these calmer days,
And view the pure white heaps of snow,
With pleas'd and puzzl'd gaze.
Like purest marble, deftly carv'd,
They stretch o'er vale and hill,
Fair monuments, not made by man,
But rear'd by nature's skill.
The sweeping curve, the graceful arch,
The line so firm and free;
A skilful sculptor well might say:
"Can this teach aught to me?"
The trees are rob'd in purest white,
And gleaming atoms shine
From out the snow, beneath the sun,
Like stones from Ophir's mine.
The merry shouts of busy men
Sound, as they dig the snow;
And, when the way is clear, the bells
With joyful jingle, go.
Then who shall say the tempest's work
Brings more of pain than joy;
Or that the evil things, to us
Are pain, without alloy?
Scheme | ABXB XXXA CDXD XCXC XEFE XGBG XHXH XIXI XJXJ ABXB FKXK |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (91%) |
Metre | 11010101 110101 1111101 110111 01110101 111101 11011101 011101 01010101 111101 010101111 0101101 01010101 110111 11110101 1110101 01010111 11111 110110 110101 11011101 011101 01011111 110101 11010101 1110101 11001111 111101 01010101 011101 0110111 111111 01110101 010101 11010101 11111 01011101 111101 01011101 110101 1111011 111111 11010111 11011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,363 |
Words | 263 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 44 |
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 August 03, 2020
Modified on April 19, 2023
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