Analysis of The Snowy Trail
Where does the snowy trail lead?
To a trapper's cache by the frozen river,
or to a warm cabin glowing with embers;
this is the path that the lean wolf and
its wiry neighbor, the fox both follow,
stealthily searching for food to fill
their empty and cold stomachs.
A writer's trail is snowy at times,
as the hunger trail of the wild,
it leads over steep hills, winding its way
through the meadows of icy stillness,
bypassing a frozen pond where a herd
of majestic moose tread carefully
while their nostrils flare from winter's
frostiness.
The trail is an exhaustive climb and food
is scarce, but the untamed denizens
reach their goal such as the ravenous
writers who do not give up and follow
their dreams.
Scheme | XXAXBXX XXXCXXAA XXCBX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1101011 1011101010 11011010110 110110110 1101001110 1101111 1100110 010111011 10101101 1110111011 10111010 100101101 101011100 11101110 1 0111010101 11101100 111110100 1011111010 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 690 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 8, 5 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 188 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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