This is an analysis of A Song For Christmas by George MacDonald.
I.
Hark, in the steeple the dull bell swinging…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X aXaX aXXb acXc X dada ebeb XaXa
- Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1 1001001110 100101111 1011001110 100110101 1001011010 1011001010 10010011100 100100101 1101001010 110101101 1111001100 111101101 1 1101110110 101100101 1101101010 101100101 1111011110 100101101 1011001010 11111101 1111011110 110111101 1011111110 100101011
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 27
Repeated words/phrases
hark, i
Anaphora
hark
