This is an analysis of the poem Christmas Eve that begins with:
CHRISTMAS hath darkness
Brighter than the blazing noon,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbXcACdedeXcAC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110 1010101 101010 1010101 101010 10010111 1101010 11111 111110 1111111 10110010 1110101 111110 1010101 1101010 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 456
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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.
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