This is an analysis of the poem For Christmas Day In The Morning that begins with:
The first Nowell the Angel did say
Was to three poor Shepherds in the fields as they lay;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbCCddeeCCddeeCCeeaaCC faafCC aaggCC gXaaCC hhXeCCXccccCC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011001001 101110001111 011111011 0011011111 10101010 1001010 1111101 100010101 10010111 1100101111 10101010 1001010 11010111 11110101 011011101 10100101001 10101010 1001010 01110011 101010101 11001111 110011101 10101010 1001010 10110100 01010101 11001101 11010100 10101010 1001010 11001111 110000111 11010010 11111101 10101010 1001010 01111111 01101111 110101011 100100101 10101010 1001010 11110101 110011001 111101101 10011111 10101010 1001010 01011111 11010111 11101111 01010100 10101010 1001010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 339
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, nowell, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, and are repeated.
The author used the same word then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word israel at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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