Analysis of Dust of Snow
Robert Frost 1874 (San Francisco) – 1963 (Boston)
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.
| Scheme | ABAB CXCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 0101 1111 0111 1011 11011 0111 0111 101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 147 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 56 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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