This is an analysis of the poem What Chris'Mas Fetched The Wigginses that begins with:

Wintertime, er Summertime,
Of late years I notice I'm,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbXcccXcbbddeeeefgffhXbbfXXijjaaaaeebbffeXkkhhllXXccmm aajjgfffnnXcmmmXccddhXbbeeeeff dXXXbbfXXfXXmXhhccbXcceeooddcXmX XXfXXbjjhhhh gfXbXjmXccfXiijjcXmXfXhhfXccaacXddbbfgff ddXXmmhhhhaahhXjmmddhhXchhiiccmm mmddmmccbbXXff iiffjXXXXiccmmddfXcenXhhjpffXXdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 56,30,32,12,40,32,14,44,20,64,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010101 0101100 1011100 1010011 1110111 1010101 1011111 1111111 1111100 1110101 1111101 1100111 1011100 1100101 0111111 1010101 1011101 1110111 1011111 1111100 1011111 1111111 1000111 11110110 1010111 1100101 1011101 011100 1010101 1111011 1110111 1011101 11001110 1111001 1010101 1011101 1100011 1100101 1010111 1111101 1011110 1110111 1011111 0010100 1011101 1110101 1011100 1010001 1011111 10111101 1010111 11101010 1110111 0111101 1110001 1111111 1010101 0110111 1111001 1000101 1010100 1110100 1011101 1110101 0110011 11010011 1111101 1011101 1010101 1010111 1111101 1011100 1110011 1101111 1110111 1110111 1010111 1011101 1101111 1111111 1111011 1111101 1011101 0011101 1010110 1010001 1011100 1010100 1011101 1010100 1111101 1111111 1110101 1100100 01111100 1110111 1111100 1011101 10010101 1110100 1010111 1000101 101000111 1110111 1111111 10111011 1011110 0010110 10110001 0111111 1111111 1010101 0111100 1010101 1111111 0111100 1101100 0010101 1010101 1110100 1100011 1011100 1111101 1111011 1111101 1011101 1100111 1110101 0011111 1010111 1110100 1010001 1001111 1110101 1111001 1111011 1011101 1011101 1110010 1110110 1110111 0110100 1111111 1111111 0011011 1011101 1011111 1111100 1110101 10111011 1110011 10110111 1111111 1011111 1100111 1100100 1011101 100101 1100111 1100111 1111101 1011101 1110101 1110101 1111111 0101111 10010111 1010100 1110111 1110111 1110111 1110101 1111111 1010100 11101111 1011001 11010111 1011111 1100101 1111101 0110101 0011111 1110111 11101001 1011010 1110101 1110101 1010111 1110111 1010011 1010101 1111111 1111101 01110100 0011101 0110101 1110101 1110111 0100101 11110111 0110111 1011111 1011101 1111101 1110101 1010111 1111101 11010101 1111011 1110101 1010111 1011111 0010001 0110100 1011001 1010101 1010001 1001101 0110111 1011111 1101111 1111111 1010111 1011100 1111011 1110101 1111101 1010111 1000111 1110101 1011111 0100111 1010101 11010100 1011111 10010101 1111101 1010101 10100101 1011100 1110101 1011100 0010111 1010011 1100101 1111101 11111011 1111001 111111 1011011 1011111 11111100 1011111 1011101 1110011 1011101 11001001 11111101 1011111 11101010 1111101 1110101 11111101 1110110 1011100 1111111 1010111 1101111 1110110 1011100 0011111 1011100 010101 10111011 1111101 1110111 1111101 1011101 101101 01111111 1110111 1111111 0110100 10111101 1001001 1000101 1101111 1111101 01011111 11011001 11000011 1111111 11011101 10111010 111011 1101101 1110001 1010111 1111111 11110101 1001111 1010101 1111101 1111101 1111100 1111101 0010000 1110101 1011111 11111111 1111110 1101100 1111101 1110100 1001111 10010111 1110111 1001111 10111101 1111001 11111111 1011111 111111 10111111 1110111 01110111 01100111 1111001 1111100 1011101 1000111 0111111 1111001 1110101 1110101 0110111 1010101 0110110 1110111 1010101 10010101 10101101 1011101 0011111 1110001 1100111 1011100 1010111 10111101 1110101 1100111 1111101 1111110 01011100
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1028
  • Average number of words per stanza: 194
  • Amount of lines: 354
  • 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:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, jes', her, my, o', ', fer, that, friend are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, that, the are repeated.

    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.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases then, rough connect the lines.

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