Analysis of by the shores of the zuider zee
Once upon a time in a queer little town, by the shores of the Zuider Zee
Alone on the night before Christmas
a strange thing happened to me
When suddenly one of the sparks began
to flicker, and glimmer and blink
like a big bright eye
till I hardly knew
what to do, or to say, or to think
(learned this from my grama, born in 1888, it is all I can remember, and a lot is missing.
| Scheme | AXA XBXXB X |
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101010011011011011 011010110 0111011 1100110101 11001001 10111 11101 111111111 1111101011111010001110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 373 |
| Words | 78 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 5, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on January 29, 2021
Modified on April 23, 2023
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