This is an analysis of the poem To Heavy Hearts that begins with:

HEAVY hearts, your jubilee
Droops about the Christmas Tree.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabbacdcddededfXggfhihiieXeiddXjdjkjklXlgl
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 42,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011101 1010101 10111010 10101110 11101 1111010101 1111010101 11011101101 1111 0100110011 0111001101 110101 10110101 0101110111 1011111 1010101 10111010 10101110 00111 1011000101 10010010101 1001110101 1111 0100110011 0101110101 010100 11110011 1111110101 1011101 1111101 11101100 1001010 10101 0101011101 11011100101 1101011101 1101 0100111101 0101110110 011100 11110100 1001011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1516
  • Average number of words per stanza: 262
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; your, far, hard are repeated.

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  • summary of To Heavy Hearts;
  • central theme;
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