This is an analysis of Our First War-Christmas by Katharine Lee Bates.

HARD to wait for the postman's tramp
Up the snowy walk, for the hand that gropes…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXbbccababdeeddbeb
  • Stanza lengths: 18,
  • Metre: 10110101 10101101110 100110101 1011100100 1101101101 111010101 00101 1110101 0010101 111011001 011101111 1101111001 01011101 010101101 1010100101 01101 1001101101 0011101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 18

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