This is an analysis of the poem A Christmas Folksong that begins with:
DE win' is blowin' wahmah,
An hit's blowin' f'om de bay;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaXaXaBacacaXabdXdBaXabefeXXcXBaXadcXcfXcXBaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 48,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101010 1110101 10111010 1100101 1101110 1011001 11111010 101101 010000110 110111 1111011 110111 1100010 110101 1101110 111111 1100011 110101 0101110 010101 010000110 110111 1110100 110101 1101110 010011 0101110 1100101 1111110 1100111 0101110 110101 010000110 111101 1101010 111101 1101011 110001 1101111 111111 1101110 110111 1101010 110011 010000110 111111 1001010 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1351
- Average number of words per stanza: 270
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, an' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word dey's is repeated.
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