This is an analysis of the poem For Christmas Day that begins with:
Hark, how all the welkin rings,
"Glory to the King of kings;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabX aacX bbdd cXee ffaa ccgg ddbb Xehh ffii hhjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 10000101 1111101 11101000 1011101 1010001 1010101 100101010 11101001 1010101 1010111 1100101 1010111 11010100 11101001 1011001 10100101 1010100 1110111 10010001 1110101 1111111 1010101 1010101 10100101 1011101 10101001 1010101 10111010 1010101 1010101 1011101 1010101 1110001 1010001 1011011 1111101 1010101 1011001 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; born, now are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words christ, hail, born are repeated.
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