This is an analysis of A Christmas Carol by William Topaz McGonagall.
Welcome, sweet Christmas, blest be the morn
That Christ our Saviour was born!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aAbb X ccaa aaaa ddaa eaaa ffaa ggaA ggaa eaaa ddee ggaa gghh
- Stanza lengths: 4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 101101001 1111011 11000110110 1101001110010 10 111101 11110100101 0101000101 1111011 0111011111 10101001011001 1110010110111 111101101101 11001010111 00101010101 110101001111 111010101101 01001101 011101011 10110011101 0111010111 1110001011001 110100101011 110011111 111101111 1111010101 110101011 10111011 1111011 1111001001 111010011 11111010111 0100011111 110100101 1110111101 111011101 11010110111 10100111 001010101 101011101 10100110010 101100111 1111011 011011111 1101101 110101001 1100101101 1110111 11001010011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 13
- Lines: 49
Repeated words/phrases
christmas, to, and, respect, new, morn
Anaphora
and
Epiphora
born
