This is an analysis of the poem More Sonnets At Christmas Iv that begins with:
Gay citizen, myself, and thoughtful friend,
Your ghosts are Plato's Christians in the cave....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaacca dedeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1100111101 1111010001 1011100101 1101011101 1101011111 1101000101 11010101001 1111001111 1111111100 1111011101 1001010100 0111100101 1101001101 10110101001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 305
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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