This is an analysis of the poem A Belgian Christmas that begins with:
The 'happy year' of 1914
AN hour from dawn:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaabccbddeffeggdfFdXXhiiXbbciiXXXhaaXccajjabbifFi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 49,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101 11001 0111 1010111 0101 11001 100101 01011 1001 110101 0111 10111 0011101 0101 11101 1010111 0111 1111 100001 0101 10111 1100101 0111 0111 1111010 01001 00111 111111001 101 1101 111101 0101 1111 111101 10011 10101 111111010 0111 10101 0110101 11010 101010 110101 0101 0101 100101 0101 1111 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1156
- Average number of words per stanza: 229
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ' is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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