This is an analysis of the poem The Death Of Santa Claus that begins with:

He's had the chest pains for weeks,
but doctors don't make house...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aab acX cda Xcc ccX ded XXa aXX XXXXebe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101111 110111 10011 110111 11111 1101111 1010101 0101010 101010111 0110011 11100101 110111 11011 1101001 11111 111101010 0011101 11001100 101011 1101110 11101100 110011 0101001 1011110 11111001 111101 1110101 11111 0010100 110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 86
  • Average number of words per stanza: 16
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, and are repeated.

    The author used the same word he's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The Death Of Santa Claus;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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