This is an analysis of the poem God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen that begins with:
God rest you merry, gentlemen,
Let nothing you dismay,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcbBbdacadaBBcefeaeBB gXXhghBB fijiXiBB ebcbjbBB fkikkkBB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110100 110101 1101110 110101 011101010 110101 11001011 1101110111101 0101010 01111 1101010 01011 0101010 100101 11001011 101110111101 01110010 01101 1101010 110001 11010111 010111 11001011 101110111101 1111010 110110 0101010 0101011 11000101 010101 11001011 101110111101 0101110 01101 1111010 010111 11010110 01101 11001011 101110111101 11010111 010101 1110010 110111 0101010 100101 11001011 101110111101 1001110 110101 10111101 110101 0101010 110101 11001011 101110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 377
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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