This is an analysis of the poem The Sermon In The Stocking that begins with:
The supper is over, the hearth is swept,
And in the wood-fire's glow...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb caca bded abeb bfgf Xaaa eccc adad bfaf Xhah acgXXaege
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 0100100101 1001101 010100101 0111101 110011101 1011111 100111110101 1100110 0101011001 1010101 1011100111 110101 101010101 101111 0010101101 100101 101010101 1110101 110010111 111111 1011100101 011101 10010111 0110101 10010101 110110 111100101 1110111 110110101 10100111 111101111 111101 111101001 0100111 1100100101 1010111 1111100101 1011101 110010101 11100101 1010100101 111111 1110010101 1111010 101010101 0101111 101110101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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, some, many are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Sermon In The Stocking;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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