This is an analysis of the poem Christmas that begins with:
STEP wid de banjo an' glide wid de fiddle,
Dis ain' no time fu' to pottah an' piddle;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXXXXXXXccXXXddXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111010 11111010110 11001001101 11101101101 1001010110 11111110110 10010110010 11011111010 11010110110 11010110110 11010110010 11111111010 11010110110 11110010110 11011111110 10110111111 10010110110 11111111110 11110111110 10111111100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 922
- Average number of words per stanza: 180
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
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.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
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- summary of Christmas;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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