This is an analysis of the poem Nearing Christmas that begins with:
THE season of the rose and peace is past:
It could not last.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbabccddcdddaadabbeebeaaffaXggccgcbhiihi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 42,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100011101 0111 1110011101 0100011111 110101 011111 0101000101 1101 1101110111 10111100101 110101 1100101 10010010111 1001 01001010101 1001010101 010111 010101 0101110101 1101 0111010100 110000100101 0100111 100101 0101011011 1101 01001010101 1101001101 011111 011111 1001011100 01001 01001110111 1101010111 010101 0011001 11010101001 0101 0111110001 1011011101 110101 0010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1447
- Average number of words per stanza: 263
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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