Analysis of Snow Enough



The snow comes down in wintertime of life
when cold gives day a frost and windy blast.
Each season has its purpose and its strife,
and winter snows bring either joy or mask.

The covering of earth’s rich blooming fray,
with hardly even inch of snowy crease,
will render slopes of Deer Creek or P-A
a sad chance for a real romp on the skis.

I love the snow when it gets really deep:
the Rockies out in Colorado will
be what you want to kick up powdered heap
and prove the joy of stark cold winter’s mill.

A deep snow shows our lives at very best,
on Eastern hills or mountains in the West.


Scheme AXAX XXXX BCBC DD
Poetic Form
Metre 011101011 1111010101 1101110011 0101110111 0100111101 1101011101 1101111110 0111011101 1101111101 010100101 1111111101 0101111101 01111011101 1101110001
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 578
Words 115
Sentences 5
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 2
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 115
Words per stanza (avg) 29
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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