Analysis of Snow
David Berman 1967 (Williamsburg)
Walking through a field with my little brother Seth
I pointed to a place where kids had made angels in the snow.
For some reason, I told him that a troop of angels
had been shot and dissolved when they hit the ground.
He asked who had shot them and I said a farmer.
Then we were on the roof of the lake.
The ice looked like a photograph of water.
Why he asked. Why did he shoot them.
I didn't know where I was going with this.
They were on his property, I said.
When it's snowing, the outdoors seem like a room.
Today I traded hellos with my neighbor.
Our voices hung close in the new acoustics.
A room with the walls blasted to shreds and falling.
We returned to our shoveling, working side by side in silence.
But why were they on his property, he asked.
Scheme | X XXX A XA X X X X AXX X X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101011110101 110101111110001 1110111101110 11100111101 111111011010 110101101 0111010110 11111111 11011111011 101110011 11100111101 0111011110 101011001010 011011011010 1011101010111010 11011110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 741 |
Words | 149 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 53 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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Submitted on September 11, 2018
Modified on May 03, 2023
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