This is an analysis of Festival by Howard Phillips Lovecraft.

There is snow on the ground,
And the valleys are cold,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaXa bcbcXc adaddd bcXcac
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,
  • Metre: 101101 101011 101101 1011001 10110111110 10100011 101001 101001 101011 101101 111001111 101101011 011011 101001 101101 111001 111101001 001001101 111011 011011 101001 111011 101001001 101001001
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 24

Anaphora

and, there