Analysis of Christmas Hymn
Eugene Field 1850 (St. Louis) – 1895 (Chicago)
Sing, Christmas bells!
Say to the earth this is the morn
Whereon our Saviour-King is born;
Sing to all men,-the bond, the free,
The rich, the poor, the high, the low,
The little child that sports in glee,
The aged folk that tottering go,-
Proclaim the morn
That Christ is born,
That saveth them and saveth me!
Sing, angel host!
Sing of the star that God has placed
Above the manger in the east;
Sing of the glories of the night,
The virgin's sweet humility,
The Babe with kingly robes bedight,
Sing to all men where'er they be
This Christmas morn;
For Christ is born,
That saveth them and saveth me!
Sing, sons of earth!
O ransomed seed of Adam, sing!
God liveth, and we have a king!
The curse is gone, the bond are free,-
By Bethlehem's star that brightly beamed,
By all the heavenly signs that be,
We know that Israel is redeemed;
That on this morn
The Christ is born
That saveth you and saveth me!
Sing, O my heart!
Sing thou in rapture this dear morn
Whereon the blessed Prince is born!
And as thy songs shall be of love,
So let my deeds be charity,-
By the dear Lord that reigns above,
By Him that died upon the tree,
By this fair morn
Whereon is born
The Christ that saveth all and me!
Scheme | xaabcbcaaB dxxxbdbaaB xeebfbfaab xaagbgbaab |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (38%) Etheree (23%) |
Metre | 1101 11011101 1101111 11110101 01010101 01011101 01111001 0101 1111 111011 1101 11011111 01010001 11010101 01010100 0111011 11111011 1101 1111 111011 1111 1111101 1101101 01110111 11011101 110100111 111100101 1111 0111 111011 1111 11010111 101111 01111111 11111100 10111101 11110101 1111 111 0111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,160 |
Words | 234 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10, 10, 10 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 228 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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