This is an analysis of the poem Little All Right's Christmas that begins with:
Little All Right was sick, I ween ;
Little All Right was weak and wan, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aa aB B cb X b ab ad cd X e fe fX gX X g a ga b g XX bh bh cg X X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,2,1,2,1,1,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,2,1,1,1,2,1,1,2,2,2,2,1,1,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111111 10111111 1010010101 110010101 11010101 11010101 111100101 1101110111 111010101 110010111 11110111 1100100101 110100101 01010101 11011111 1110011101 1101101011 01110111 110100101 1110100101 101100011 110100101 100101001 0111111110 111010110111 10110101 0011100101 110110101 100010101 1101001001 110011111 110111101 11010111 010100101 110110101 111100101 1110100111 010110101 10010111 011101100 10100111011
- Amount of stanzas: 27
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 59
- Average number of words per stanza: 11
- Amount of lines: 43
- 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; all, he, ', with, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words little, he are repeated.
The author used the same words little, he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words caress, ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase came connects the lines.
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