Analysis of Christmas without Christ
John Henry Newman 1801 (London) – 1890 (Edgbaston)
HOW can I keep my Christmas feast
In its due festive show,
Reft of the sight of the High Priest
From whom its glories flow?
I hear the tuneful bells around,
The blessèd towers I see;
A stranger on a foreign ground,
They peal a fast for me.
O Britons! now so brave and high,
How will ye weep the day
When Christ in judgment passes by,
And calls the Bride away!
Your Christmas then will lose its mirth,
Your Easter lose its bloom:
Abroad, a scene of strife and dearth;
Within, a cheerless home!
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GXGX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 11111101 011101 11011011 111101 11010101 0111011 01010101 110111 11011101 111101 11010101 010101 11011111 110111 01011101 01011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 526 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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