This is an analysis of A Christmas Hymn by Hannah More.
O now wondrous is the story
Of our blest Redeemer's birth?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef dbdb gdgd fhfh egeg gigi cfjf XiXi hXhX cjcj ihih hdhd XfXf ekek cece hlhlXdede
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 11100010 0111001 10101010 10100101 100110010 1010101 10101010 0110101 10101010 1011101 100110010 1010111 00101010 0010101 101001010 0010011 00100110 11101010 10101010 11101010 0110101 0100101 1110101 1110101 11101010 1000101 10101110 10010101 11110011 1010111 11111011 0010111 111010010 1010111 11101101 1011101 111011000 1110111 11101010 1111101 1110101 11101011 10101001 11101010 10111010 11100101 101110010 1110001 11101010 1110101 011100010 1010001 11101010 1111101 10101110 1110101 10111010 01101010 10111100 11111010 11101110 1010111 11101010 1010101 11111010 1100111 10111010 1010101 110110010 1010001 10111010 1011011 11100010 1110101 11101010 1011101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 19
- Lines: 76
Repeated words/phrases
to, not
Anaphora
hear, boast, see
Anadiplosis
given
