Analysis of A Canadian Snow-Fall.
Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon 1832 – 1879
Come to the casement, we'll watch the snow
Softly descending on earth below,
Fairer and whiter than spotless down
Or the pearls that gleam in a monarch's crown,
Clothing the earth in its robe's bright flow;
Is it not lovely - the pure white snow?
See, as it falls o'er the landscape wide,
How kindly it seeks all blots to hide,
Shrouding each black, unsightly nook,
The miry banks of the little brook,
Robing bare branches in ermine white,
Making all lovely, spotless and bright.
In the farm-yard see with what magic skill
Its marvels of beauty it works at will:
The well-house now is a fairy hall,
And the rough, rude fence is a marble wall;
While gates and hillocks where barn fowl ranged
To ramparts and bastions now are changed.
How softly it falls - nor breath, nor sound,
Though four feet high it should pile the ground,
Though it change the face of wood and field,
With skill that no mortal could ever wield;
Yet, as it falls, not a murmur low -
The noiseless, silent, white-winged snow!
See, in the rays of the morning bright,
How it blushes beneath the sun's red light;
How its diamond crystals gleam and shine,
Clearer than those of Golconda's mine;
Though the wintry winds may with anger blow,
Surely all love the beautiful snow.
Scheme | AABBAA CCDDEE FFGGHH IIJJAA EEKKAA |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11011101 100101101 100101101 101110011 100101111 111100111 111110011 110111111 10110101 01110101 11100101 101101001 0011111101 1101101111 011110101 0011110101 11011111 11010111 110111111 111111101 111011101 1111101101 111110101 0110111 100110101 1110010111 111010101 1011111 1010111101 101101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,223 |
Words | 228 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 194 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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