This is an analysis of the poem A Christmas Folk-Song that begins with:
The little Jesus came to town;
The wind blew up, the wind blew down;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Aabb ccbX cXbbXAabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 01110111 10010111 11111001 11010101 10010101 0111011 11011111 11010101 110111010 11010111 11010101 01010101 01111111 10011001 11111001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; wind, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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