This is an analysis of the poem The Christmas Box that begins with:
Oh, we have shipped his Christmas box with ribbons red 'tis tied,
And he shall find the things he likes from them he loves inside,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccaa bbdd bbee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11110101010111 11110111001101 11110101110101 11110101010101 11010101111101 11010111110101 10010111010101 01010101111101 01010001010101 11111101010101 11110101110101 111101001110101 11010101010101 01110111010101 01010111110101 11010111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (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; he, and, his, to are repeated.
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