This is an analysis of the poem A Social Call that begins with:
Well, well, old Father Christmas, is it you,
With your thick neck and thin pretense of virtue?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaabb cdXdbb XeXecc fgfghh iXiiee ejejbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010001 01111101010 11000111011 11111100011 1110110011 1101010111 1101111111 00110110111 1011110011 11010101011 1100010101 1101010101 1111010101 110011111010 01010001001 11011101010 1101001101 0101110011 0111110011 01110011110 1011000110 11010101010 1111010101 1001011101 1001011101 01011111000 0100111101 01001011010 1111010111 11010001110 1111010111 11110011110 1111010101 01110101010 0111011101 0111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, to, more are repeated.
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