This is an analysis of the poem A Christmas Wish that begins with:
I CAN NOT give you happiness :
For wishes long have ceased to bring ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXcccc aXcddeea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111100 11011101 01010111 11010100 10011101 10111101 11000101 11100101 11111100 110010101 11011101 11010101 11111111 11011101 10110101 11011100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 289
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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