This is an analysis of the poem My Version Of T'Was The Night Before Christmas that begins with:
So...
While the children were sleeping, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcXdXce ef ecXXXXXd XX XdbfXe fXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,2,8,2,6,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 1010010 1011 01110011 1011 01010101 1110010110 10100111 101010111001 001001 11111001 1010010 101101 11010100010 1001001 100101 0101010111 101 010110 10 111110101 110110 01010110 11110010 100101011 11111010010 010101 11110101 0101001 1
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 30
- 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:
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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