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
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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Robert Graves

Robert von Ranke Graves was an English poet, scholar/translator/writer of antiquity specializing in Classical Greece and Rome, novelist and soldier in World War One. more…

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