This is an analysis of the poem The Christmas Of 1888 that begins with:
Low in the east, against a white, cold dawn,
The black-lined silhouette of the woods was drawn,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabaab ccadda eeXaaa eXfdXf ggadda
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1001010111 01110100111 110101 0101111111 1111010111 010111 0111111101 1111000101 110001 111101001001 0111010111 110111 11110010001 0111010111 101110 01011110011 101110010111 110111 0101011101 01111111010 111111 01010001001 01010001101 110011 0111000111 11011110101 111111 11111101001 11010010111 110001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, a, our are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Christmas Of 1888;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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