This is an analysis of the poem A Christmas Carol that begins with:
THREE DAMSELS in the queen’s chamber,
The queen’s mouth was most fair;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc adadee dddXff dgdgcc bdbddd hgXghe igigXg hghgjj hghXee hcXcee ccccddXdcdchg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000110 011111 11010110 1011001 101001 110111 11011100 011101 11010110 100101 101101 110111 1111101 110101 110100111 010111 101101 110111 101110101 010101 01001111 011101 101011 110111 11110101 101111 01111101 110101 101101 110111 11110101 010010 01100110 011100 101010 110111 101110001 011101 010001011 010011 101100 110111 01101101 1000101 01010111 010101 101111 110111 00101101 1000101 01010111 100111 101111 110111 1110101 011101 10010100 101011 101011 110111 01110101 001111 1110111 111101 100111 110110 11110101 110101 01000111 011111 101011 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; s, of, be are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same words she, if 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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