This is an analysis of the poem Santa's New Idea that begins with:
Said Santa Claus
One winter's night,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcX daadd aXcdd Xddcc XeebX bXccXXdccee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 1101 11010101 11110101 11101101 1111 1101 01010111 111010101 11011011 1001 1111 11010101 010010111 01011111 11010 0111 11111101 01011101 1110101 1011 0111 1001001001 11011111 11110101 0111 0101 11011111 01111100 010101000 1101 1111 11011101 11010111 11000100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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