This is an analysis of the poem Guessing Time that begins with:
It's guessing time at our house; every evening after tea
We start guessing what old Santa's going to leave us on our tree. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc dXeXaa aaeedXXcceedd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 010111110010101 1110111010011111 101011101010101 111111101010001 1010111001010101 101110101110101 111011100011101 11101010010110 101110111010101 111010101010111 101010110010101 101111101010101 101110101010101 101010101111101 101010001110001 101011101111101 101010101111001 101010010110111011 01011111010101 111110100011111 101101101110101 011110011010101 11100101010111 111010100010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 375
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, that, me, i, it's, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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