Analysis of Lines For A Christmas Card
Hilaire Belloc 1870 (La Celle-Saint-Cloud) – 1953
May all my enemies go to hell,
Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel.
| Scheme | AA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Couplet |
| Metre | 111100111 01010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 61 |
| Words | 13 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2 |
| Lines Amount | 2 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 39 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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