Analysis of There's Snow On The Fields
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
There's snow on the fields,
And cold in the cottage,
While I sit in the chimney nook
Supping hot pottage.
My clothes are soft and warm,
Fold upon fold,
But I'm so sorry for the poor
Out in the cold.
Scheme | ABCBDEFE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101 010010 11100101 111 111101 1011 11110101 1001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 206 |
Words | 42 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 151 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 11, 2023
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