Analysis of Christmas



December days are cold and drear
Yet every heart is singing,
For Christmas comes to crown the year
And set the Joybells ringing


Scheme ABAB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 01011101 11001110 11011101 010110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 124
Words 23
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 104
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted on January 01, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Beatrice Cleland

No information, the poem was printed on a Christmas card (Great Britain, 1931) more…

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