Analysis of Christmas Everywhere

Phillips Brooks 1835 (Boston, Massachusetts) – 1893 (Boston, Massachusetts)



Everywhere, everywhere, Christmas tonight!
Christmas in lands of the fir-tree and pine,
Christmas in lands of the palm-tree and vine,
Christmas where snow peaks stand solemn and white,
Christmas where cornfields stand sunny and bright.
Christmas where children are hopeful and gay,
Christmas where old men are patient and gray,
Christmas where peace, like a dove in his flight,
Broods o're brave men in the thick of the fight;
Everywhere, everywhere, Christmas tonight!
For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all;
No palace too great, no cottage too small.


Scheme AbbaaccaaAdd
Poetic Form
Metre 10101001 1001101101 1001101101 1011111001 1011111001 1011011001 1011111001 1011101011 11111001101 10101001 101111101011 1101111011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 562
Words 93
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 453
Words per stanza (avg) 91
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 06, 2023

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Phillips Brooks

Phillips Brooks (December 13, 1835 – January 23, 1893) was an American Episcopal clergyman and author, long the Rector of Boston's Trinity Church and briefly Bishop of Massachusetts, and particularly remembered as lyricist of the Christmas hymn, "O Little Town of Bethlehem". In the Episcopal liturgical calendar he is remembered on January 23. more…

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