This is an analysis of the poem Christmas Day that begins with:
What sudden blaze of song
Spreads o'er th' expanse of Heaven?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dcdceX fafagX XhdhiX jdjddd didiee ddddii kbkbll ddddff fmfmii gngnjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 110101 110101010 01010101 11101010 1000100101010 11010010101010 1101001 0101110 11010101 0101110 10001111101 110110101011000 110111 011101 10111101 110101 1111010101 0111011010011100 1111010 010101 010010101 111101 1111011110 0101111100100 100101 100101 01110011 010011 1101010101 110111110101 111101 110110 11010101 111101 10111111111 010100110101 110101 001101 01010101 101111 1111100101 111101010111 0100101 011101 11010111 111101 1011111111 10001001010011 110111 110001 110010111 010001 11010101111 010101110111 111111 1111001 10011111 110101 11001001101 111011000101 1110101 010111 11011101 010101 111110001001 100101110011
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; of, on are repeated.
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