This is an analysis of Near The Snow-Line by Oliver Wendell Holmes.

SLOW toiling upward from' the misty vale,
I leave the bright enamelled zones below;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcddc
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1101010101 11011000101 1111110111 11001010101 11010100101 11111111001 0101001001 10100011111 11010101001 1011011101 101100011101 11010101010 11010101010 110100101001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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