This is an analysis of A Christmas Child by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay.
SHE came to me at Christmas time and made me mother, and it seemed
There was a Christ indeed and He had given me the joy I'd dreamed.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aa aa XX bb aaXaa
- Stanza lengths: 2,2,2,2,5,
- Metre: 1101110111110101 1101011111010111 1100111101110101 0111111101010001 1101011111111111 1111010111011101 1101110101011101 1111011101110101 1101111111010111 0101010111110101 1111100111110111 0101010111010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
and, to, me, i, she, all
Anaphora
she