Analysis of Christmas in America



Twas five days before Christmas and all through the streets
There were only plows plowing but not a man’s feet

No one was walking the road white and clean
Though it seemed so much closer if you know what I mean

The stockings were thrown on a book by a chair
That no one had opened; they had not a care

Their bellies were full and the TV was on
As they sat in warm houses like nothing was wrong

Destruction and darkness waited outside their door
To kill all the children of that most wretched whore

Bright lights on their trees with the angels on top
Would be all that was left of that most worthless crop

They would not fall down or ask for forgiveness
So there weren’t any left to respond to this witness


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Poetic Form Couplet 
Metre 111011001101 101011011011 1111001101 1111110111111 01001101101 11111011101 11001001111 111011011011 010010101111 111010111101 11111101011 111111111101 11111111010 1111011011110
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 715
Words 143
Sentences 1
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 40
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 81
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Written on December 20, 2009

Submitted by dawg4jesus on March 09, 2022

Modified on May 03, 2023

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