This is an analysis of the poem Thankful I Am To Witness Another Christmas that begins with:
I am up and feeling blessed.
Thankful I am to witness another Christmas....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xab XXbcacXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 101101001010 1100110010010 11110001010110 101100111 0100010110100 100100101010 011110 1110101011 1010100101011101 1000011111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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