Analysis of Snow
Edward Thomas 1878 (London Borough of Lambeth) – 1917 (Pas-de-Calais)
In the gloom of whiteness,
In the great silence of snow,
A child was sighing
And bitterly saying: "Oh,
They have killed a white bird up there on her nest,
The down is fluttering from her breast!"
And still it fell through that dusky brightness
On the child crying for the bird of the snow.
| Scheme | ABCBDDAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 001110 0011011 01110 0100101 11101111101 011100101 011111110 10110101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 297 |
| Words | 58 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 226 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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