This is an analysis of the poem A Celebration Of Family, Community And Culture that begins with:
When a snowman winks his eyes of coal,
And from their windows children know......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXb cXbab bXbXdXdX cX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,8,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110101 10110101 10001 111111101 11010110 010111100 01001110 10100011 00010101 0110010 10111001000101 11010010001001100 1010 11010010001001100 10100 11010010001001100 1010 11010010001001100 1101001 010101000100100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
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- summary of A Celebration Of Family, Community And Culture;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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