Analysis of A Christmas Prayer for Chloe



My Chloe friend may have to spend
Her Christmas day alone.
The country where she lives is there
By England on her own.

I try to be a friend she'll see
As one who cares a lot
About the way she spends each day
Believing she is not

Of value to a world so blue
With truth so hard to find.
My Christmas prayer has just one layer;
Use faith to fill your mind!


Scheme XAXA XBXB XCXC
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 11011111 010101 01011111 110101 11110111 111101 01011111 010111 11010111 111111 110111110 111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 355
Words 80
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 91
Words per stanza (avg) 25

About this poem

She needs many, many prayers to replenish the hope she has lost!

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Written on December 15, 2023

Submitted by stevec.24118 on December 15, 2023

Modified by stevec.24118 on December 15, 2023

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