This is an analysis of the poem Christmas Night that begins with:
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We shipped a sea on Christmas night - ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abBbaXaC dBdcccC eBeaaaCXXfffXdggXgaXffhhXhhddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,7,30,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11011101 11011101 01010101 11110101 111110101 11111111 10111010 01111011 11011101 11010111 11011111 01011101 11010101 10111010 11111100 11011101 11011101 11111111 110101001 111110101 10111010 1 11110100 010100101 01011101 101010101 1011111110 11110111 011101001 11111111 10111110 11110111 01110101 0111001 01011011 101011001 11111111 00111101 10111011 11111111 11010011 01110101 11101111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 396
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; christmas, on, night, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines night is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word morning at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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