This is an analysis of the poem More Sonnets At Christmas I that begins with:
To Denis Devlin
Again the native hour lets down the locks...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XaXaabab cdcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 01010 01010101101 10011110101 1001011100 1011011111 0101011101 11000010101 1011010001 1101110101 01111100101 1110010101 11010101001 0101110101 0101101011 1001000101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 209
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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