This is an analysis of the poem A Christmas Carol that begins with:
TUNE--'God rest ye, merry gentleman.'
GOD rest ye, merry gentlemen; let nothing you dismay, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aAaa XXaa bbaA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110100 11110100110101 1101110111101 011110101011101 1101110111101 1111010110110 1101110110101 01010101011101 11010100111101 111101001011 0101010100101 11110111111101 1101110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, all are repeated.
The author used the same word god at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word day at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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