This is an analysis of A Calendar Of Sonnets: February by Helen Hunt Jackson.

Still lie the sheltering snows, undimmed and white;
And reigns the winter's pregnant silence still;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbaacacca
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 110100110011 1101010101 11001110101 1111110111 111110101 010010111 1101010110 11110011101 1101011101 1101110001 0101010111 1101011101 0101011101 111101001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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