This is an analysis of the poem A Christmas Child that begins with:
SHE came to me at Christmas time and made me mother, and it seemed
There was a Christ indeed and He had given me the joy I'd dreamed.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa aa XX bb aaXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101110111110101 1101011111010111 1100111101110101 0111111101010001 1101011111111111 1111010111011101 1101110101011101 1111011101110101 1101111111010111 0101010111110101 1111100111110111 0101010111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 68 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, me, i, she, all are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word she is repeated.
The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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