Analysis of A Patch of Old Snow
Robert Frost 1874 (San Francisco) – 1963 (Boston)
There's a patch of old snow in a corner
That I should have guessed
Was a blow-away paper the rain
Had brought to rest.
It is speckled with grime as if
Small print overspread it,
The news of a day I've forgotten --
If I ever read it.
| Scheme | XAXA XBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1011110010 11111 101011001 1111 11101111 1111 011011010 111011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 233 |
| Words | 50 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 21, 2023
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