This is an analysis of the poem A Christmas Carol that begins with:
Welcome, sweet Christmas, blest be the morn
That Christ our Saviour was born!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aAbb X ccaa aaaa ddaa eaaa ffaa ggaA ggaa eaaa ddee ggaa gghh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101101001 1111011 11000110110 1101001110010 10 111101 11110100101 0101000101 1111011 0111011111 10101001011001 1110010110111 111101101101 11001010111 00101010101 110101001111 111010101101 01001101 011101011 10110011101 0111010111 1110001011001 110100101011 110011111 111101111 1111010101 110101011 10111011 1111011 1111001001 111010011 11111010111 0100011111 110100101 1110111101 111011101 11010110111 10100111 001010101 101011101 10100110010 101100111 1111011 011011111 1101101 110101001 1100101101 1110111 11001010011
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; christmas, to, and, respect, new, morn are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines born is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word born at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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