This is an analysis of the poem First Monday In December that begins with:
This first Monday in December,
Comes with a beauty none like I can remember....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AA XXbXcdef Xaf Addbcgg AAXeeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,8,3,7,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110010 100101111010 011100101 1111 011010 011001 01010110011 101001010110 0100111101 101 101000100 1101110110 11101 01110010 11101 0110 11010111 011010101010 110101 11001101 01110010 100101111010 11101110 1101 1111001 010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word what is repeated.
The author used the same word this at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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