This is an analysis of the poem A Christmas Greeting that begins with:
Here's to you, little mother,
With your boy so far away;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacac XdXdefef ghghcdcd hbhbgiXi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011010 0111101 10101010 1110101 10100010 1110111 11111110 1010111 11101010 1010111 11101110 0011101 10011011 1110101 11101111 1110101 10101010 0010101 10110010 1011101 11011011 11101011 11101011 11100101 10101110 0110110 11101010 0011101 11101010 1010111 10111010 1110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, you, may are repeated.
The author used the same word little at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of A Christmas Greeting;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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