This is an analysis of the poem The Three Christmas Waits that begins with:
My name is Pleaceman X;
Last night I was in bed,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXacaccXcdbaba cecede fefeee bXXXbg Xhehih hXhXjk ejejka XXaXXb eeeXaX XXciei gbXbhX kXkXfg jXjieX fXfclc eieiXi ajaXij lelXhX aXXXcX bebeie XcccfX XgkgXX jbjXiX bbbbbb XjcjbX kXkXXX bjbjbj ieiecX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101001 111101 010101 110011 111111 010011 1100101 110101 110111 110111 1111011 010101 110111 100011 101111 111101 101101 001101 110111 111111 110101101 110001 110001 110101 111101 110011 11010111 100101 111101 111111 111101 1110101 1010110101 0010101 110100 111111 111111 110111 10101100111 111101 110011 110101 100101 1101011 111111011 111101 111101 110111 1111001 111111 11010111 1101111 111111 1101100 111001 1100101 110101111010 011111 111111 110111 110101 011111 1101011000111 001101 101110 01111 110101 010111 111111101 1110111 111101 111101 11011 010001 11010111 100101 1001001 111111 010101 111111 11110101 110101 110101 110101 111101 111101 01011101 111110 1101001 100111 101011 110101 101110101 010001 111001 010001 010101 010101 11110011 111111 110101 010111 100101 110111 11010111 010111 100111 110011 111111 111011 110111101 1100101 010101 0111001 1010110 110101 11100101 0100101 11101 111101 111101 100101 11011111 111101 1100101 111101 1101011 110011 110101001 011110 110101 110101 011111 110011 11011101 010011 101111 110101 110101 1101000 11111101 1100110 1100101 110111 110101 110001 11001101 11001 1111000 110111 110001 110101 11100101 110101 110101 101110 010101 010110 11011100 101010 110101 11101100 110111 01000100 110101 11010100 111111 111101 110111 110011 11100101 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 27
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 172
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; one, and, great, left, my, i, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i, i've, that, the, they, your are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines dear, ' are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' 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 great connects the lines.
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- summary of The Three Christmas Waits;
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