This is an analysis of the poem Christmas Presents that begins with:
Every year Grandma gets a tin of talcum powder.
She always says, ‘Ah my favourite!'...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaX XXXX XaXX bXbXcXbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011010101010 1111111000 1001110010 11111111101 0110111110 011011101001010110 1101111010 10110110101 1101001111010 11111111111 110110010101 0010011011110 111110101001011101001 101110110101 1111001011001011 1100110101 1111 1110100110011 1011101010 1111010111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; umbrella is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Christmas Presents;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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