This is an analysis of the poem The Yearly Lie that begins with:
A merry Christmas? Prudent, as I live!
You wish me something that you need not give.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa XX bb cc dd ee bb bb Xf gg hh XXXfff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101010111 1111011111 1011110101 01101001111 1101010101 1101000101 1101011101 1111010101 1111000101 0111010101 0011110001 0111000111 11111011101 1111011101 1001010001 1001010101 1101010111 1101010101 1101010101 1011110101 1101010101 0101011001 1111001011 1111010111 1101111111 1101110101 1101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 86
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 27
- 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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
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