This is an analysis of the poem His Santa Claus that begins with:
He will not come to him this year with all his old-time joy,
An imitation Santa Claus must serve his little boy;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc aaddcc aabbXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110101010111 11010101110101 11110101010101 11110101110101 11011011110101 01010101110101 01010101110111 11010101110101 01110101010101 11000111110101 10110101010101 11110101000101 11010101010100 11110101010101 11111101011111 11101100100101 11010001110110 01010101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 378
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, he, christmas, in, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word france at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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