This is an analysis of A Ballad Of Santa Claus by Henry Van Dyke.
Among the earliest saints of old, before the first Hegira,
I find the one whose name we hold, St. Nicholas of Myra:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXaa bbcc dXXe dXXX bbaX ccbb eebb aaXX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 0101001010101100 110111111100010 010101110101010 010101001101010 0101010101010100 1101010011101010 110111011111010 110101011101110 110101110100010 110101011101010 1100111010101010 111101111101110 111101011101010 01011111111010100 11001010101001010 110101011101011 010100111111010 1101001011100110 1100111011111010 1111110111001000 110101111101010 110111011100010 11001110011001010 0101110101110010 110111011111010 110101110001010 11010010111001010 110101010111010 110101010101010 111101010101010 010101110101010 11101110011101000
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, they, them, he
Anaphora
the, and, he
