This is an analysis of the poem The Day Of Days that begins with:

A year is filled with glad events:
The best is Christmas day,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababccXcdede fgfghXhXicic bbbbbbbbgjgj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010101 010101 110010110 010101 11011111 110101 11010111 110011 11110101 110111 11011111 111101 110101001 110111 01011100 110111 11110101 110001 10111111 1101010 111100111 110111 11010111 111111 11011101 110011 01110100 011001 11010011 111101 11110111 110101 11010111 111111 11011101 110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 387
  • Average number of words per stanza: 70
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • 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; i is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.

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