This is an analysis of the poem In Drear-Nighted December that begins with:

IN drear-nighted December,
Too happy, happy tree,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abacdddd aeaefffd cbcbgggd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0110010 110101 1101010 110100 0110010 00101010 1101010 010101 0110010 110101 1101010 010101 1001010 1111010 101010 010101 1111010 010111 1011010 101111 0101010 1101010 111010 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; them, to, it are repeated.

    The author used the same word in 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 them, it are repeated).

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