This is an analysis of the poem To Santa Claus that begins with:
Most tangible of all the gods that be,
O Santa Claus-- our own since Infancy!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbCC dXee ffgg hhii ddjj ddba ccccXbACC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1100010110 1101111100 1111001111 1111001101 0100011101 1011011110 1101010011 1101110011 1101001111 110001111 0101011111 1111010011 0101010111 1101010111 0101110011 10010100101 0101000101 11001010101 1101110101 1100011101 0101011101 0101000101 0101010100 1111011101 1101010111 11001111101 1011010111 11010100110 1101111100 1100010110 1111001111 1111001101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; as, and, of are repeated.
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