Analysis of It Blows A Snowing Gale
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
IT blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year;
The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier.
The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro,
A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane.
Autumn leaves and rain,
The passion of the gale.
| Scheme | AABCCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Boy Named Sue |
| Metre | 1101010010101 0111010011101 0101011110101 011111010101 10101 010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 254 |
| Words | 57 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 190 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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