This is an analysis of the poem Christmas, His Masque (Extract) that begins with:
Why Gentlemen, doe you know what you doe? ha!
Would you ha'kept me out? Christmas, old Christmas? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaabaXXXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110011111111 11101110110 1001011010 1111010111100110101 110011111 11001110011101010 1111111110 1110101 0011011111101 11111001011111111 111100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 569
- Average number of words per stanza: 106
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, christmas are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines christmas is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase christmas connects the lines.
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