This is an analysis of Christmas by Virna Sheard.
With all the little children, far and near,
God wot! to-day we'll sing a song of cheer!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeeff ggXXcX hheehh
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 0101010111 1101110101 0101111111 1111011111 1101010111 1001010101 1011010101 1101110101 1101110111 0101110111 1001001101 1111010001 1001001101 1101110101 1101111101 1111110111 1111110101 1101011111 1101111111 1110011101 1111000101 1111110011 0101110101 1101111110
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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