Analysis of Dear Santa
I was very naughty this year
So I don’t expect to see you here.
I also wanted to let you know
That even though you won’t show
And I won’t get a present
It was worth every minute of it
| Scheme | XX AA XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Couplet |
| Metre | 11101011 111011111 110101111 1101111 0111010 1111001011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 184 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 47 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
About this poem
Just a quick reflection on whether I deserved a visit from Santa that year.
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Written on December 07, 2017
Submitted by UJ on August 02, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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