This is an analysis of A Christmas Folk-Song by Lizette Woodworth Reese.
The little Jesus came to town;
The wind blew up, the wind blew down;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Aabb ccbX cXbbXAabb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,9,
- Metre: 01010101 01110111 10010111 11111001 11010101 10010101 0111011 11011111 11010101 110111010 11010111 11010101 01010101 01111111 10011001 11111001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
wind, to
Anaphora
the
