This is an analysis of Somehow not only for Christmas by John Greenleaf Whittier.
Somehow not only for Christmas
But all the long year through,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcbc
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,
- Metre: 11110110 110111 01111010 00111101 10111010 0111011 01011010 010111
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 8
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
the
