Analysis of Snow-Flakes. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Second)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
Out of the bosom of the Air
Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,
Over the woodlands brown and bare,
Over the harvest-fields forsaken,
Silent, and soft, and slow
Descends the snow.
Even as our cloudy fancies take
Suddenly shape in some divine expression,
Even as the troubled heart doth make
In the white countenance confession
The troubled sky reveals
The grief it feels.
This is the poem of the air,
Slowly in silent syllables recorded;
This is the secret of despair,
Long in its cloudy bosom hoarded,
Now whispered and revealed
To wood and field.
Scheme | ABABCC DBDBEE AXAXFF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101 11011101010 1001101 100101010 100101 0101 1011010101 10010101010 101010111 001100010 010101 0111 11010101 10010100010 11010101 101101010 110001 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 549 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 149 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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