This is an analysis of the poem With This Wish Expressed that begins with:
However you spend these festive days...
May they be the best, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aba bbc ccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111101 11001 01101 001101 11101110 01011 01101110 001010101 1010010110001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 93
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 9
- 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.
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- summary of With This Wish Expressed;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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