This is an analysis of Poem For A Christmas Broadcast by Anne Barbara Ridler.
Woman s Voice
Perhaps you find the angel most improbable?…
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdeeXXXX fggeEh fiieEj fcXeEg haXkk dbbbllaajjggbbaadd
- Stanza lengths: 11,6,6,6,5,18,
- Metre: 1011 011101010100 0101011101 110010100010 111101111010 01101001010 0100010110101 10100101010111 11110111010 1100011101 1011011001 11 0101111101 10110011 0101001010 11010 11101111 11 11011101 010100101 0011011010 11010 11110011 11 10011100 1001000101 10010011110 11010 1111101001 11 101101011010 10101010001 10111101 1001001111 10 10010101 1001000101 111111111 01000101 01010011 0001110100 1010010100 10111101 1100100101 1011101 11101011 110111101 111111111 11011101 11111101 1001010 110110011010
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 52
Repeated words/phrases
', his, love, what
Anaphora
his
Epiphora
', love
