This is an analysis of the poem Two Christmas Eves that begins with:
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THE white snow veils the earth's brown face, ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbaaccccddeeff ccgghhaaggiijjbbddjjjjakcc bbffllccccmmjjgg gggnngg ffeeeggeeffjjffiicccccc ooee lllggjjjaaccddjjjj ppjjjjccjjddmmnnaa X nnjjjddoo ccddjjggccnnaagg Xcppcc aakccdX jjXeppeee eeqqccaa aaddeeccggccdd ddbbrrqq X ccggggggeeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,26,16,7,23,4,18,18,1,9,16,6,7,9,8,14,8,1,14,20,4,16,7,11,6,4,4,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 01110111 11110101 10011111 11010101 11011101 11111101 11111101 10010101 11110101 11010110 11111111 11011111 111010001 11110101 11111101 11011101 11111111 11110110 11011111 11010101 11110110 01011111 11110111 01110101 011101110 01111011 01110101 0100101111 11010101 11010101 11010101 11110101 10110101 110100101 11000101 111010111 11110101 01011100 11110111 11111111 11010111 11111100 11001101 11111001 01110101 11011111 11111111 11111101 01110111 11011101 11111101 11111101 11111111 11011101 11110101 10011111 111100101 01011111 11010101 10011011 11110111 11010101 011111011 11011101 11010111 11011111 11110111 11111111 11111111 111101101 01011101 11110011 110111111 110111001 01010101 01110101 11010111 11111101 11011101 11010111 11111111 11011111 11010111 01011101 11101111 11011110 11011101 11010111 10011011 10010101 10010101 11110101 11011101 10110111 11110101 11110111 11111001 11111111 11011111 11111111 11111111 11111100 11110101 01011011 01110011 11001101 11110111 11011111 11111111 01110111 11011101 11011101 110011111 11011101 11111011 01111101 110111111 11010001 11011111 11110101 11111101 11110111 10110101 01010101 11011111 10110111 1 11010011 01111101 01111111 011110101 11111111 11111111 11011100 110010001 011100111 111101001 10110101 11011101 01011101 11010101 11010101 11101111 10110111 11110101 00110101 010010111 01011001 11110111 01010111 11010101 11011111 11001101 111100101 11011111 11110101 01010111 01010111 11110101 010011111 010011100 11000101 11010101 11010101 10110111 11011101 11111111 11110011 11010111 11011101 11010101 010100101 11011101 11110101 01111101 11011111 11111111 11111111 11011101 01111101 01111101 11010101 01111101 11010111 11111101 110100101 11111101 11111111 11110111 11100111 11111111 11110101 01110111 10110111 11111111 11011111 11110111 01010101 10111111 111111010 11110101010 1111001010 01111101 11111111 1 11111111 01111101 11111111 11011011 11110111 11111111 11011101 11101101 010100101 01111101 11011111 11111111 01010011 10010101 01110101 11111111 11111111 11110111 01111111 11110101 01010101 01110101 11010111 11110101 01111111 01010101 11011101 110111010 11110101 11011111 110101111 110101111 110111001 11101101 01011101 11111101 01111111 11111100 11111111 11111001 01011101 100111111 11111111 11111001 111101001 11111111 11111011 10110101 01100111 11010111 11110110 10111001 11111110 10010111 01011100 01010111 10001101 01010001 01000101 01011101 01010101 11010101 11111001 01001111 11010100 11000100 10110101 10111111 01111111 01011101 11000101 110101010 110111001 11111011 11110101 01111101 11111101 11011101 11011001 11011111 11111111 11110101 11010011 11011101 11101101 001101111 11110111 01111101 11011111 01011111 11111101 01110011 11010001 11111011 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 30
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 366
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 327
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, and, how, i, what, in, to, he, my, gold, well, brought, it, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, no, how, worked, we, and, i, on are repeated.
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