This is an analysis of the poem A Christmas Carol that begins with:
Hark! In the air, around, above,
The Angelic Music soars and swells,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cccc cdcd efef fXfb ghgh cdcd didi jkXk lflX jgjg hdhd dgdg fdfd dmdm mnmn ajaj djdj Xhnh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10010101 011010111 10010111 11010101 01010101 010010101 11010101 11010101 01010111 101011101 11010101 010111001 110101110 11110111 1111101010 11011101 11010101 11011101 01010101 01010101 110011101 11110111 11011111 01010001 01011101 11110111 10010101 01010101 11010111 01010101 010101001 10010101 0110101 111100111 01010111 11010101 10010011 0100101001 10011111 11011101 11001111 00111111 11011101 11011101 11010101 11110101 01110001 11111111 11001111 01011101 110011101 11111111 11011111 01010101 11011101 11010101 11010101 10110101 11010101 11010011 11010101 11111101 01010111 01010111 11011101 11010111 11011111 01011101 11110101 11000101 01010111 10110111 101101001 101111001 01110101 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 76
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; it, and, one, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, the, peace, that, we are repeated.
The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of A Christmas Carol;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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