This is an analysis of the poem Our First War-Christmas that begins with:
HARD to wait for the postman's tramp
Up the snowy walk, for the hand that gropes... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbccababdeeddbeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110101 10101101110 100110101 1011100100 1101101101 111010101 00101 1110101 0010101 111011001 011101111 1101111001 01011101 010101101 1010100101 01101 1001101101 0011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 667
- Average number of words per stanza: 118
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; for is repeated.
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