Analysis of A Christmas Carol
Christina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
Before the paling of the stars,
Before the winter morn,
Before the earliest cock-crow,
Jesus Christ was born:
Born in a stable,
Cradled in a manger,
In the world His hands had made
Born a stranger.
Priest and King lay fast asleep
In Jerusalem,
Young and old lay fast asleep
In crowded Bethlehem:
Saint and Angel, ox and ass,
Kept a watch together,
Before the Christmas daybreak
In the winter weather.
Jesus on His Mother’s breast
In the stable cold,
Spotless Lamb of God was He,
Shepherd of the fold:
Let us kneel with Mary Maid,
With Joseph bent and hoary,
With Saint and Angel, ox and ass,
To hail the King of Glory.
Scheme | XAXAXBCB DXDXEBXB XFGFCGEG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101101 010101 01010011 10111 10010 10010 0011111 1010 1011101 00100 1011101 01010 1010101 101010 010101 001010 1011101 00101 1011111 10101 1111101 1101010 11010101 1101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 657 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 161 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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