This is an analysis of the poem And To All A Jolly Merry Christmas that begins with:
Sleigh bells ring,
Are you listening? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AA bcXcbb dXe XXbXdd ebade efbdbe fddXAA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,6,3,6,5,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111 11100 10010 111011100 01011 0011010 101001010101 1110 101011011 11010110 01111111 1 10001111010 1101 1101 0101010 010101011001 1101 0101001 0100101010 0010100 010100111 101010001111 01001011010010 100 100100101 101101001 1001011001 101 0101010 01110011 111 11100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
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- summary of And To All A Jolly Merry Christmas;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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