This is an analysis of the poem Christmas Cards that begins with:
1.—For Downing Street
We do not think that everything is well,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbcX XaaddX XeeeeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101 1111110101 1111010011 1111010111 1101000101 01011 110100101 1110010111 1111110111 11010101110 11111101010 01011 1110101 11110111 110111 11010001 110101 01011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; we is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word 1944 at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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