This is an analysis of the poem A Christmas Carol, Sung To The King In The Presence At White-Hall that begins with:
Chorus.
What sweeter music can we bring, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbbbbcc b Xddd Xdee Xffff Xddggg ahhh Xiii Xjj aggbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,7,1,4,4,5,6,4,4,3,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10 11010111 1010101 010011001 01010101 111111001 010101010 10100010 001011001 11 11111101 11010001 11010101 11 01110101 011100111 110011101 11 11010101 11010101 11100111 11010 11 111 01111100 11011101 11110101 01010101 10 11111111 100111010 110101010 11 01000101 11001101 0101 11 0101 01011001 10 11011101 01010101 01110111 11010100
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; awake, and, this are repeated.
The author used the same word voice at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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