This is an analysis of the poem First Of All, Santa...The Roof Is Pitched that begins with:
Dear Santa...
It is easier for me to accept I have been scammed, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXdceafdf ecXXg XfXXgb XdbdXgfbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,5,6,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 110 00100110011101 1011 100101001101 111001111011 1111111 011101011010 10110 0101 11101111011 11010 10101110010 001001 0111010001 11110110110 101011100101 110 011111101 111011110 1110111101 1111101011101 100110101111101 11 1111001011 11001011101 11101100101 11010011000 01100011 1111011111111 1 1111011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 283
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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; and, you, to are repeated.
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- summary of First Of All, Santa...The Roof Is Pitched;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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