This is an analysis of the poem Christmas Eve that begins with:
Friend, old friend in the Manse by the fireside sitting,
Hour by hour while the grey ash drips from the log;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acac de de afaf dgdg ecec chch cece aiaiXaeae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,2,2,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110011010110 1011010111001 1001111110010 10110111001 10100111110 111001001011 10100111010 101100111101 11101101010 11011011111 1110010011010 110100101001 10011101010 11011100101 100111001010 101101101111 101110101110 10011101001 101101011110 10101110111 10010111010 11010011101 111111101110 11110101101 1001001001010 110111101001 101011101010 1001111110101 101101011010 10011100101 101111001110 1110011001001 111001101110 11100100111 110101111110 110100101101 11100111010 11010110101 11110101110 11011111011
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, that, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words silent, gold are repeated.
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- summary of Christmas Eve;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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