Analysis of Expectations
Little food prints under the window sill
Small children hearts with wishes to fill
Ice flowers at the window pane grow
Houses and gardens covered with snow
Through the windows dwarfs spying
Parents Christmas presents buying
Christmas Eve comes really near
Who has being very good this year?
The dwarfs will tell it Santa Claus soon
They watch the kid even under the moon
The reindeer sled is getting ready
Is loaded with sweets, toys and teddy
The smell of ginger bread is lying in the air
And children choose what they could wear
At Christmas day under candle light
Presents placed, faces shine in delight.
| Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFFGGHH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011100101 110111011 110101011 100101011 1010110 10101010 1011101 111010111 011111011 1101101001 01111010 110111010 011101110001 01011111 110110101 101101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 592 |
| Words | 106 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 16 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 498 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 106 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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