This is an analysis of Christmas Morning by Eugene Field.
The angel host that sped last night,
Bearing the wondrous news afar,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcX efef dXdX agag hchc dedX aifi
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 01011111 10010101 101101001 100100101 10111111 10110101 10010111 11110101 01010111 11010101 11001111 01010111 101110101 01111101 01111101 11010101 11011101 101011101 11000101 11110101 10110011 110011101 11010111 10011101 10111101 10110101 010100101 01110111 11111111 10110001 11010101 01010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
'awake
