This is an analysis of the poem A Christmas Colloquy that begins with:
THE country farmer has his joys
Of little city girls and boys...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbccc ddeeccfgeehhee iffjj ckklbaagg iccbb caaa aaee immllnnbbb cccaafffX ikkkkmmm iikkbXkkkkii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,14,5,9,5,4,4,10,9,8,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 01010111 11010101 010010101 01110111 11110111 11110101 11111101 11010101 01011111 111011010 110101010 11110011 01010101 11110101 11010100 101011010 11101011010 01010001 11010101 110111110 100101010 1 10101011 01010101 11110101 110111101 10 11010011 10111101 11010101 11010001 11011101 11010101 100101110 110101110 1 101101010 110100011 00010111 111011101 10 100101101 11010111 11011101 11011101 11010101 110101010 010111110 1 110110001 11111111 110110101 110101011 11110101 110110101 1111011001 1010110101 111011101 10 011111111 11110111 111101010 1101110010 11010100 11011101 111010101 11110100 1 11011101 110110111 110111001 11110101 1101101111 111101101 1110100111 0101010010 110100010 11010001 11010101 110111010 010101100 01110111 11010111 10111001 01010111 11010101 110101001
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 261
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 98
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; and, my, i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, i, and, in are repeated.
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- summary of A Christmas Colloquy;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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