This is an analysis of the poem A Christmas Carol that begins with:
FOR THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL CHILDREN OF THE CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES
'What means this glory round our feet,'... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XXXX aXaX bcbc acac dede adaX fdfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111000100010 11010111 01011111 11010111 11010101 11110101 11010101 110100101 11110001 10110011 11110001 11111001 01111101 10110101 111101011 11010101 00110101 11011111 01110111 01110101 01111001 11110101 01010101 11010101 11110001 11111111 11110101 11010101 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; ' is repeated.
The author used the same word 'what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of A Christmas Carol;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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