This is an analysis of the poem The Nativity that begins with:
Peace? and to all the world? sure, One
And He the Prince of Peace, hath none.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabcbbbcddbbeebbffaaaagghhiijjddbbbbiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 11010111 11000111 01010101 11011110 01100100 01010101 11010111 01111111 01100100 11011101 11010101 11111100 01010011 11010110 11011101 110100111 110101001 111101101 11011101 01011111 11011101 101100101 11110111 11011101 11111101 11010111 11011101 10111101 11110111 11110111 11100101 00111111 11010101 11110111 10010101 01110101 11001111 01110011 1111101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1468
- Average number of words per stanza: 276
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; and, to, thou, thy, no are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.
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- summary of The Nativity;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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