Analysis of Snows and Sins
Oh, summer's droughts and dryness have vanished,
As with the temperance of halycon days;
The child exiles of Afghanistan banished,
The preacher that lies, the soldier that prays;
And love remembered is grief forgotten,
And the One and only Son begotten,
And from His lips, the words, it's finished,
Kiss by kiss young Judas' betrays
Now the bloody leaves of autumn do fall,
And all the seasons of snows and sins;
My dear boy, The Reaper for all doth call,
The light that loses, the night that wins;
And one eternal flame is dancing,
And two firefly hearts' romancing,
And in days dividing lover and lover
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Scheme | ABABXXAB CDCDEEXD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010110 110100111 011101010 0101101011 0101011010 0010101010 011101110 11111001 1010111011 010101101 1110101111 011100111 010101110 01101010 00101010010 11101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 636 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 251 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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Written on November 14, 2021
Submitted by mattheww.50814 on November 14, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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