Analysis of Snow Flakes Fall
Snow flakes silently fall tonight
like frozen tears of arch-angels
dancing in the twilight
What follows me is silence
and a trail of broken promises
We all have no chance
but to curl up by the fire
and wait until tomorrow.
| Scheme | ABACDEFG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11100101 11011110 10001 1101110 001110100 11111 11111010 010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 215 |
| Words | 41 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 180 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on March 24, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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