This is an analysis of the poem Christmas Even that begins with:
Alone--with one fair star for company,
The loveliest star among the hosts of night, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbccbba dedede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0101111100 01001010101 1011100101 11010100101 11011101001 10001010111 1001011101 1111000100 11011110011 0100110111 0111111111 10111101000 1111010001 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 318
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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.
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