This is an analysis of the poem White Christmas that begins with:
My folks think I'm a serving maid
Each time I visit home;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbc ddddedeX cfcfghgh XigiXigi Xijigkgk gjgjaXaX khkhiiii gcXcidid
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100101 111101 11111101 111111 10111111 111111 01111101 111101 11010111 010111 01001111 010101 11010101 011101 01111101 01010 11010111 110101 01110101 010101 11111011 111101 11010111 110101 01010111 111111 01110101 011101 01011100 101101 11010101 1101001 10110101 011101 11010100 010001 110010001 111111 10010101 010001 11111111 1101010 100100101 0111010 11001111 110101 101110010 1111100 11011111 111111 11010101 010101 11010101 110101 11011111 010011 11111101 110101 11010101 111101 01111111 111111 11011111 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; i, we, and, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
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