Analysis of Like Snow
Robert Graves 1895 (Wimbledon) – 1985 (Deià)
She, then, like snow in a dark night,
Fell secretly. And the world waked
With dazzling of the drowsy eye,
So that some muttered 'Too much light',
And drew the curtains close.
Like snow, warmer than fingers feared,
And to soil friendly;
Holding the histories of the night
In yet unmelted tracks.
Scheme | AABACDEAF |
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Poetic Form | Nonet (33%) |
Metre | 11110011 11000011 110010101 11110111 010101 11101101 01110 100100101 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 294 |
Words | 54 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 9 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 230 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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