This is an analysis of the poem A Christmas Carol For 1862 that begins with:
The Year Of The Trouble In Lancashire
The skies are pale, the trees are stiff,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbcdede fdfdghgh ddddijij ehehXjXj didikhkhXccccadad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100100101 01110111 010111 01010010 010101 11010101 011111 110101111 011101 01010101 011101 11111001 111101 11111100 110111 11110111 011111 01010111 110101 01110101 010111 10010111 100101 11011101 110111 01110111 111101 10111101 110111 01010101 010101 11010101 110101 11011111 110101 10111011 110111 1111001110 011101 111101110 011111 11111101 110101 11111111 110101 01010111 101101 11111111 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 221
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 49
- 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; nor, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, they are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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