An important lesson i learnt was that you should always try as hard as you can to do your best in school, and to try again if it doesn't turn out how you hoped it would. I learnt this from when the poet wrote "and i won't accept a mess"
The dashes at the ends of most lines in "It Sifts from Leaden Sieves" hint at a late-spring snowfall, while the lack of punctuation and the way many lines in "The Snow-Storm" flow together hint at a midwinter snowfall.
1 is D and 2 is C. The double o in foot makes a different sound than in the other words and the ea in great makes a different sound than the other words.