This is an analysis of the poem The Christmas Night that begins with:
Wrapped was the world in slumber deep,
By seaward valley and cedarn steep, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabbcc dddeedf gggdfgXXeeeddcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 110101101 1111001001 101001100111 0110000101 0100100101 0100100101 11010101 1001100111 10110101 10110001 10010111 10110001 010000100 0011100101 10101101 101100111 10101111 100100100 110110101 0010101100 100111111 010011111 11001001101 1100100101 0100100111 1011111100 11100100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 274
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; and, of are repeated.
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- summary of The Christmas Night;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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