This is an analysis of the poem If Only I Were Santa Claus that begins with:
If only I were Santa Claus and you were still a boy,
I'd find the chimney to your heart and fill it full of joy ; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAbbccdd eeffggcc ccddaXgg hhhhiiggXhhggaaAA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01010101110101 11010011110101 11011111110101 11110101101111 10010111110111 11110101011101 11110111110101 01010011111111 01010101011101 110111011101001 11110101111101 11011111110110110 11110011111101 11010101110111 01010101011101 1111011111011 11010101110101 01111101011111 11010011111111 10010111110111 01010101111100 01010101010100 11010101111010 11110001110111 10110101111101 11010011110111 111111001110111 11111111010101 11110111110111 11011111111001 11110101111101 10111101011101 11111011110111 01011111111101 01111110111101 1100101101111101 11111101111101 01111110011101 01010101110101 11010011110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 490
- Average number of words per stanza: 95
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (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; and, your, i'd, miles, you, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i'd, and, the are repeated.
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