Analysis of Snows and Sins

Matthew Wild 1984 (California)



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
Note by note the ballad begins


Scheme ABABXXAB CDCDEEXD
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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