This is an analysis of the poem Christmas,1870 that begins with:
Heaven strews the earth with snow,
That neither friend nor foe... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccb bbdeed ffbeeb ggabba cchbbh ggijji ffkllk llbggb ggkaak aabkkb ccmkkm eeneen bdaXda oobggb ggekke X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,1,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 110111 1101001101 010101 111101 010111110101 111111 110101 11010101110 110101 101101 110101110110 100101 110101 1101010111 1101101 011101 110001110101 110111 110001 1101100101 110101 111001 100101011101 110101 111111 1111010001 010111 101101 110101110101 100101 010101 0101111101 101111 110101 010111101001 111101 101101 1101010101 010111 100101 100101111011 110101 111111 1101010101 101101 111101 101101111101 111101 110011 0101010011 111101 111101 010111110011 101101 111101 0111011111 110101 111101 010111110001 111101 110111 1101010101 111111 011101 010101110101 1011001 110111 0101111001 111101 100101 010101110101 0101010 11011010 0101010101 110111 110100 111111111101 111111 111011 1111110101 110101 010101 1101010010001 011101 110101 1101111101 111101 1001001 1001111101001 011011
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 198
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 91
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, no, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, and, the are repeated.
The author used the same word no at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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