This is an analysis of the poem Roadside Creche that begins with:
Traditionally, Gaspar, Melchoir and Balthasar
show up with their exotic gifts, though the Bible...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXbcXXacdbcXdXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100010101100 110101011010 1110111001 00111111010 001011011110 101101110 10011010110100 01011110110 001101011001 1111010101010 10101010111 11111010101010 11010010001010 100010010101 101101100101 1100111100 101111000101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 819
- Average number of words per stanza: 136
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his is repeated.
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- summary of Roadside Creche;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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