This is an analysis of the poem Hymn For Christmas Day that begins with:
Christians awake, salute the happy morn,
Whereon the saviour of the world was born;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaacXddccccaXeeffggaaccXXhhaaiiccXXjjjjffiiff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 48,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1001010101 1001000111 1001010001 1101010001 0001010110 0101010101 1001010011 11011010110 1101000101 0111010001 0111010101 0101010101 0101010111 0101100011 1101010101 1001001011 11110001010 01010101010 0100010111 11011010001 1101011101 1011110000 010110010101 0101011111 110101011 0101000101 0101010110 0101000101 1101110001 01001010101 1011110101 1111011101 1111010101 1101000101 1101110011 1101010111 10110111001 1101000101 1101110111 0011000101 1001010101 11110010111 111101101001 0101010101 1111010101 0111010101 1101010111 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2091
- Average number of words per stanza: 362
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, in, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words this, to are repeated.
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