This is an analysis of the poem Jest 'Fore Christmas that begins with:
Father calls me William, sister calls me Will,
Mother calls me Willie, but the fellers call me Bill!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXccbB ddeeffXB ggaahhbb aXiijXbbXjjjjggbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111010110 1011101010111 101110110001 01010111111101 1011101110001 1010101111101 11010111111111 111100101110 101011111101 111111011101 1010111111101 1101001111101 101101001010011 11011001110101 1111110101101010 111100101110 1011111110001 10010001010101 111110100110101 11001010110101 11011100010111 11010101111111 1101111000111 1011101001110 11111101110111 0111010100101010 01111101110101 00110001110111 11111011110001 1101010100111010 11010001110101 111100101110 11000111010111 11111101111101 11111111111111 11111101111111 11000001011000001 11110011111101 110001101010111 11100101110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 462
- Average number of words per stanza: 89
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me, calls, she, an', yer, for, to are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word be at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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