This is an analysis of the poem Christmas In The Year Of The War that begins with:
NEVERTHELESS this Year of Grief
The Tree of God's in leaf. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa Xb cc dd cc ee fX ff dd Xb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010101 010101 0101100 010101 1001001001 010101 11110101 0100101 110101001 0011101 00111101 0011001 11111111 111101 1110010101 101101 01001111 1101011 010101100 011011
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 66
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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.
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