This is an analysis of Christmas Landscape by Laurie Lee.

Tonight the wind gnaws
With teeth of glass,…

Browse poems by Laurie Lee

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abaca dXdbX ceXca Xafdb cafafacXba XXefXc
  • Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,10,6,
  • Metre: 01011 0101 01010 0110010 01110 1010001 01110 1010001 0010001 110101 01111 111010 01101 01101 10101001 10111011 1100101 011011 111001 10111001 011011 101110 1010101001 01001010 01101 10111001010 1011010 1101001 11111 100110 001011 011010 0110001 10001 0011010 011101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 36

Anaphora

the, and