Analysis of Thaw
Edward Thomas 1878 (London Borough of Lambeth) – 1917 (Pas-de-Calais)
Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed
The speculating rooks at their nests cawed
And saw from elm-tops, delicate as flowers of grass,
What we below could not see, Winter pass.
| Scheme | AABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1001101111 010011111 0111110011011 1101111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 187 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 146 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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