This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet For Christmas that begins with:
I saw our golden years on a black gale,
our time of love spilt in the furious dust....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXababXbbXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111001011 11011001001 1111011111 1011110100 1100011101 1111001111 111100101 0101011111 1111011101 0001011101 1011011101 10111101110 1111110111 1001011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 600
- Average number of words per stanza: 124
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Sonnet For Christmas;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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