This is an analysis of the poem In The Holy Nativity Of Our Lord that begins with:
CHORUS
Come we shepherds whose blest sight... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcc dcdcbb ebebffX adadGGa GGX bgbgXXa XXh BdBDBBX ijijHHa HHX bfbfFFa FFX ikikKKa KKX XigiEEa EEX lklkIIa IIh BdBDBBa BBa bfbfhh lglajj ggggdX XkXkmmXcgcgga
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,7,7,3,7,3,7,7,3,7,3,7,3,7,3,7,3,7,3,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10 1110111 11110101 111111001 11011111 01110111 11110111 11111101 11010011 11110111 01111101 11111111 111010101 110110101 10011101 111001110 11101111 100 1010101 1010101 01111101 01010011 01111101 10011011 10 01111101 10011011 10 1010111 01010101 01010101 11010101 11110101 11111101 10 11110101 11111101 1 11101101 11010101 11111011 110100101 11111101 11111111 100 11111111 010101010 00011101 011111010 011100111 01011011 10 011100111 01011011 10 11111110 11010101 01010101 11010001 011110001 10111111 10 011110001 10111111 100 11011111 1100100101 10110101 01001101 10110111 11011111 10 10110111 11011111 10 1100100100 110101001 11111111 11011101 11111111 11110111 10 11111111 11110111 100 11111101 10010101 11110111 11010101 11111111 10111101 10 11111111 10111101 1 11101101 11010101 11111011 110100101 11111101 11111111 10 11111101 11111111 110 10110011 01001001 10010101 10011101 1101110101 110101101 10110111 01110110 11010101 010010101 111111110 100110010 10110111 101110101 10010101 10110111 11111100 11010100 11110101 1101011 11011001 01111111 01111111 01011101 01110011 01010111 1010101 1010101 11110100111 0101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 25
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 135
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; him, we, saw, thee, in, earth, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words than, tell, the, we, to, each are repeated.
The author used the same words we, welcome at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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