Analysis of The First Snow
Snowflakes like cotton balls
Are slowly falling down
Covering fence and walls
Pines are getting a crown
Under the weight of the snow
The branches are bending
Getting down very low
Snow falls without ending
A squirrel runs on the fence
Slides but doesn't fall down
Snowflakes are getting dense
Gone is all that what was brown
And the kids are delighted
Scheme | ABABCDCDEBEBF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101 110101 100101 111001 1001101 010110 101101 110110 0101101 111011 11101 1111111 0011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 339 |
Words | 62 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 289 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 62 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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