This is an analysis of The Snow Storm by Edna St. Vincent Millay.

No hawk hangs over in this air:
The urgent snow is everywhere.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccaabbbbdd
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 11110001 01010101 01100101 11010101 01000101 11011100 11010101 11010101 100011111 01010100 0101001001 01110101 11011111 10010101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Anaphora

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