This is an analysis of the poem If I Were Santa Claus that begins with:
IF only I were Santa Claus I 'd travel east and west
To every hovel where there lies a little child at rest;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd cceeffcc gghhiicc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 010101011110111 010010111010111 111111011010101 111010011010101 11110101010101 11011101010101 110111111110101 11110101110101 010101011110101 1101110111000101 1111111011101111 0101001011100111 111111101011101 11011111110111 11110101111100 010101001111101 010101011110101 01110101110111 0111010111101 110101001110011 11110101111101 10010111001101 0100101111011111 11010101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 480
- Average number of words per stanza: 95
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (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; i, 'd, and, mothers are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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