Analysis of Kriss Kringle
Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1836 (Portsmouth) – 1907 (Boston)
Just as the moon was fading
Amid her misty rings,
And every stocking was stuffed
With childhood’s precious things,
Old Kriss Kringle looked around,
And saw on the elm-tree bough,
High hung, an oriole’s nest,
Lonely and empty now.
“Quite a stocking,” he laughed,
“Hung up there on a tree!
I didn’t suppose the birds
Expected a present from me!”
Then old Kriss Kringle, who loves
A joke as well as the best,
Dropped a handful of snowflakes
Into the oriole’s empty nest.
Scheme | XAXA XBCB XDXD XCXC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1101110 010101 01001011 11101 111101 0110111 111101 100101 101011 111101 110101 01001011 111111 0111101 10111 01010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 476 |
Words | 87 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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