This is an analysis of Under The Christmas Snow by Ina D. Coolbrith.
Most lives lie more in the shadow, I think, than in the sun,
And the shadow from some is lifted only when life is done;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb aabb ccbb ddee ffaa ggdd ggff bbggXggff
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 11110011111001 101101010101101 11111101111101 11001110100101 110110101110101 111110111100101 011010101011101 111111100101111 110110101100101 1010101010111001 010010101101111 0100100101110111 01001001011100101 0011010010110001 1110111010100101 1110100101110101 01101010111000111 011110101110101 0101100101110101 010010101100101 110001010101101 10111101100101 1011110101111 1101110110001 11110010111111 11010100101011 001001011100101 1101010110101 11010011110101 1101001010011 1111010111101 1101010101111 11110101100101 111110110110111 110111010111101 1110111100100101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
in, i, her, and, again, as, your
Anaphora
and, she
