This is an analysis of the poem A Goblin Christmas that begins with:
The little Man, and tiny Maid,
Who love the Fairies in the glade,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd aeaeaXfb XgaghiXi jkXkebeX flflbmbm ajmjmmXX mjmjdaaa adadafaX amammfmf afXf jeaeajjj ahbh mafaeff calabeXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,4,8,4,7,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01011101 11010001 11000101 01110111 110100111 11001101 11110101 11001111 01111111 0010101 01111111 010111 1010011111 11101010 01110101 1100111 0110101010 100111 11010111 1100101 01011101 010111 11010101 100111 01011111 0011101 011101010 011101 01110111 011111 101010101 1111010 11010101 110111 01011101 111111 01011101 010111 01010101 111111 10011101 011101 10010101 1110101 11111111 110111 111111110 001101 11010111 010111 01011100 101101 111101001 110101 11011101 1101001 1011111 10101 1011101 11101 10101111 110111 1110101 1110101 11011101 011101 11010101 0101001 01011101 111101 11000101 011011 0101001110 011111 1111101010 011101 111010101 011101 11011101 1101011 101010101 00100111 110010111 011111 10111101001 1110101 011100110 101001 101101111101 11001001 1100100111 1100101 111011001001 0110101 011100101 10111011010 0110101 111011101 10011011 1110111001 11101011 1100111101 0001101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 255
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 105
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words who, the, and, we'll are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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