This is an analysis of Once in Royal David's City by Cecil Frances Alexander.
Once in royal David's city
Stood in a lowly cattle shed,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababbb cdddaa beceee cfgfgX XhdhccXdecebb
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,13,
- Metre: 10101010 10010101 10101010 0010101 1011101 1010101 11101010 1011101 10101010 1010101 00111110 11111010 11101011 1110101 11101010 0110111 1010110 10100011 11011010 1111111 11101110 1111111 11101110 11100110 11111111 1010101 11111110 01101001 1110101 0011101 10111010 0010101 11111010 1111111 1110101 1011101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
in, and, he
Anaphora
and
