This is an analysis of the poem Christmas Folk-Song that begins with:
Those who die on Christmas Day
(I heard the triumphant Seraph say)...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aAXXXXbbXa AAbbccddXA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 110010101 00010111 01010100 11010101 01000101 01010111 010100001 01011110 01111101 11111101 110010101 01010111 11010101 11010111 10010101 11010101 11010001 00100110 11111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 334
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Christmas Folk-Song;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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