This is an analysis of the poem December Sonnet that begins with:
At evening jugglers travel through the forest
On quaint wagons, small steeds....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a b b c c a X X X X d d XXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 110100101010 111011 01011101 0011100110 0111010111 01101111 0101111010 110001000101000001010 01111011001 001010011010 01011001011 011100010 0110010111 011001010
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 42
- Average number of words per stanza: 8
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of December Sonnet;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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