Analysis of Winter Haiku



See the winter snow
Falling gently to the ground,  
Blankets of His love.

Fingers frozen stiff
Snuggle slowly into gloves,
resting now in warmth.

Hot cocoa simmers,
Scents flowing from the stove top  
Warm me up inside.


Scheme XXX XXX XXX
Poetic Form
Metre 10101 1010101 10111 10101 1010011 10101 11010 1101011 11101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 215
Words 37
Sentences 3
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 58
Words per stanza (avg) 12
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Submitted on April 20, 2017

Modified on May 02, 2023

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Malinda Butler

I'm a 50-ish' mother of two grown children & a grandmother to a beautiful baby girl. I like poetry and have been writing poems for about 40 years now. Currently I teach 4th grade English, language arts. more…

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