This is an analysis of the poem A Legend Of Christ's Nativity that begins with:
At Bethlehem upon the hill,
The day was done, the night was nigh,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaab acaac dcddc efeef feffe fffff egeeX hXXhX XibbX jgjjg afaaX fjffj klkbl mjmmj nhnnh oeooe aoaao jfjjf pbcck qhqqX jfjjX jmjjl jRjR dRdR iRiR aoaao mqmmq jojjo afXaf dfddf gpggc jRjR cRcR jRjR hRhR kRbR sRsR
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,4,4,4,5,5,5,5,5,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010101 01110111 01111100 01010111 11010111 01011001 11010101 01010101 10100101 110101 01110101 11010101 01010101 01110111 01010111 01100101 11011001 11110101 10110101 01011001 01110101 11111101 01110101 11010111 01010101 01011101 11010101 010010111 01010101 110010001 11100101 10011101 11010111 11010101 10111011 11110100 11110100 11010101 11010111 01111101 11111111 11110101 11001111 010111111 11111010 110011111 01001101 11011101 10110010 11010001 10110101 01110101 11110001 01010111 110101110 01010101 01010101 01010111 01010101 01010101 10010100 01010101 11010100 00110101 10110101 110101010 01000111 110111010 110100010 01010101 110101011 01010101 11000101 11110101 10110101 11010001 11010111 11010111 01010101 11110101 11010101 10111111 11011101 11101101 11010101 11010101 110100101 11111111 11011111 11100111 11010110 11111111 10111101 11110110 11111100 11110101 10011101 11111101 11011101 11010101 11010101 11010001 11000111 10111011 11111101 11110101 01110010 01100101 01000101 11001111 1010101 101101 10010101 1101 1010101 101101 1001100 1101 1110001 101101 1110101 1101 11010101 010101001 11010001 100101001 010111001 101101010 11010101 1101010010 010101010 11110101 11010101 11110101 10010101 110101101 11010111 10110101 00110101 110000100 10010111 00111101 01010111 11000101 101111011 10110111 01110101 01110011 11111101 01110101 11110101 11000101 1010101 101101 1110111 1101 1010101 101101 1110101 1101 1010101 101101 1010101 1101 1110101 101101 1010101 1101 1010100 101101 1010101 1101 1010101 101101 1010100 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 37
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 176
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; and, her, he, i, lullaby are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, he, 'i, and are repeated.
The author used the same words the, and, 'i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words ', lullaby at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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