This is an analysis of the poem When Christmas Comes that begins with:
For thee, my small one--trinkets and new toys,
The wine of life and all its keenest joys,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaAbbA cXAaaA XXAaaA ccAddA ddAeeA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110111 0101110101 1101 1101011001 1011011111 1101 1111011110 1101010100 1101 1101000101 11010001111 1101 1101110111 1101010101 1101 1101110101 1101110100 1101 11010010111 1101011101 1101 1101111101 1101011111 1101 1111010101 1101010101 1101 1101011101 1101010101 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; for, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word for is repeated.
The author used the same word for at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word comes at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of When Christmas Comes;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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