This is an analysis of the poem A Child's Christmas In Wales that begins with:

One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a b c de X d eXeaX X X X XXXXXXXX XXXXXX XX XX XX X X aXXXX aXXXX X XbcefXf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,2,1,1,5,1,1,1,8,6,2,2,2,1,1,5,5,1,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111101001001011101110110101010001010110100111111001010011111111111110011111111111 10100110101111011111100101111111110100111101111110011111101110111001111110101101010010101111101011010 01101010010111101010010101100110110011110110010011000111111011011011011101110111001101111111110010010110111110100111011011101111111000100101110111110111010110111001 10111011010100010010000101010101111110110100110010101000101011011010110111001100110101011101110 10001101011110101 11110100011011010111011101001011011100011010110101010110010011011010110101001110000110011111010100111 101101101011010111111101110001101001111100010001101011001101010010 10010100011010111101 101010011010110100 111100011010111010110001000100101110010 1010001111111110001111110101111001001011 101001110111001000010101011100 111010100111010101111101010100011101011110101110111111101001011101011011010001101111101111110101111010100011111001101111111011100110101001011101010111111011101010 01001111011101011101001101011101111111101111011111110101111101110010001001010101010101010101011111011101100011011101111011111101111101011111101111110 1011101101110111101001110101011010011111010011111000111101101001010111101100100111010101000110111010111010 10110110 10100111101011101111001110010100111010111010010 10110101101110110 1011010101100110 1010110011010 1001110 10010 1011001111101110111111101001011001010010111110010101110101111011010100111011100 10100100 10011010101010111101011110101101 101101100 10111101101001010101111101011110101111100110 1010100 10101010010110110001101011010111001001010111001111011100111011010101100101011111111100 10100100 100010100101000111110111011010010110111011101000101011101111101101010110001100110101111111001101111011111010111011111111010011101110111010011100010111110010101111010110111111110101010110 101010100 10011101010101010110111011001100111101101100101110111110101010101011111110011001010111010111110001101010111101010110100101011110100111110001110011111111001011101010101010011001011101110101111111111110011010110101110101010010110110101010010110110111101111010010111010110100101111011111101000111101100111110011110010111001110110110100100 10110101100 101111011001101110100101010110111100111010010111110111011011010101010101110010111101011010100101011111100101111010010100011011001100101101110111110111010100110111010101011101110101010101011111001100111010111001011011001010011101000111011001011110100101111111000101101111101101010111110010111011100 110110101011111111001011101010101110101000011011111110111011011110111110111011011111111001000110111101010101110100010110001110110110110000111101101010100100100110100101110101101100111111010101100111011010010011101010101001 11011111110010111100111111010101100100100110100011111001111100111001011101110111010011001100111011101101011010010101001010110111111011110101110111010011101010101101001011011110010100111100010111101010111001101011110010001111101011001111101011111110111111100101110001110101010101101010101110110101101101110101011110000101101011011100101011010 111111111100001110010101111111101101110111101010 101100110100 10111011010101110 101101111100101111011111011001111010 101110111100 1011100110101101010101111110101 1011010011101010 10110010 10111011010110010 11110111001010100 0101101010100111011100110111110010111110110101101000010111011110011010011100011011111011101001111110001001110100110010111110010101010101110010001010101101010101010110101 1101111111010101010101011110011111111011010010010110011011011101011110101111001000101010110100111011100111110101000111110101111001001011101110101011011101011010110100110011101100110111010100 100111011001110111110101110111001000110101011110111111111101010110110011101010110111101011111101011111001111100101001011110111111101011110111100110100110101011011001111001 1000101011 100011011111110 10101101101010111101 11110111101101010010110010010101011001001101001011010111100101101011011111010011101110111110101011111011011111010001110010110111101001001010101111101010001011010111011110011111001110101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 22
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 758
  • Average number of words per stanza: 135
  • Amount of lines: 54
  • Average number of symbols per line: 308 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 55
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, i, it, in, at, we, cats, that, our, sea, garden, six, for, like, never, my, white, twelve, christmas, mrs, all, out, prothero, with, room, gong, smoke, there, he, mr, said, when, she, before, to, down, on, snowed, snow, but, came, bells, hear, over, no, they, presents, his, their, would, you, them, then, or, make, could, always, by, uncles, as, up, who, not, old, one, men, little, had, put, auntie, so, blow, him, i'd, voice, house, dry, small, good, long are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there, i, and, let's, perhaps are repeated.

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

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