This is an analysis of the poem A Song Bewailing The Time Of Christmas, So Much Decayed In England that begins with:
Christmas is my name, for have I gone, have I gone, have I gone,
Have I gone without regard;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXccXddE ffgfbbXggE haeahhXaaE ccccaaXiiE XcccjjXbbE bakXbbXffE babakkXhhe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,10,10,10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 100111111111111 1110101 0111111010100 10111011 11101101 100 1011011001 101111111 1001001001111 1011101001001001 0011101 11010011011011 0110101 11010101 110111001 100 101101001 1101100011 1001001001111 10101101101101 10110101 1100101101101 10101001 111111001 110101111 100 101101101 1101001001 1001001001111 100100101101101 10011101 100100101110111011 101110101 01001011 101111001 100 110010101 100111101 1001001001111 11100101010101010 10101101 1100101101101 10101001 101001111 111101111 100 110101101 1111110101 1001001001111 10101111111111 11111010 111101101101101 10111100 0101101111 1101110111 100 11101111 1011011101 1001001001111 10010011001001 00111001 1111011011101 11011111 1001011111 1111101111 100 1111011001 10110010101 10110110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 400
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 69
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; i, have, gone, stones, into, welladay, and, doth, it, sleep, deface, decay, protest, he, he'll, so, hot, devour, beget, her, find, to, here, seem, for, hold, up are repeated.
The author used the same word christmas at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word stay at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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