This is an analysis of the poem A Little Christmas Basket that begins with:
De win' is hollahin' 'Daih you' to de shuttahs an' de fiah,
De snow's a-sayin' 'Got you' to de groun',...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXaX bXbXXXXa XcXccXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010100110010101 0101011001 1010101110010110 111100011111 111111101110011 10101110111 1111101011110111 10101010101 1101110101010001 10101010101 101011101111101 10111110101 11011101000111001 10101010010 111010101110111 10101010111 1101010101011101 110101110001 111010101110110 11101010101 10001110101011 11111111101 1111101101011100 10101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 413
- Average number of words per stanza: 87
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, dey, yo', to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words de, 't are repeated.
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