Analysis of Snow flakes
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
I counted till they danced so
Their slippers leaped the town,
And then I took a pencil
To note the rebels down.
And then they grew so jolly
I did resign the prig,
And ten of my once stately toes
Are marshalled for a jig!
| Scheme | ABCBDEFE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101111 110101 0111010 110101 0111110 110101 01111101 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 243 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 172 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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