Analysis of Joy of the Season
Oh what joy at Yuletide
to find the flock is full again!
The Shepherd fulfilled the promise
without regard to what has been.
Is this not the miracle
proclaimed so clearly on that night,
that even the least among us
can walk into the light.
I know, for I have witnessed,
the gathering of the sheep
as The Shepherd moves among us
though the flock is fast asleep.
| Scheme | XXAX XBAB XCAC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
| Metre | 11111 11011101 01001010 01011111 1110100 01110111 11001011 110101 1111110 0100101 10101011 1011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 363 |
| Words | 76 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
About this poem
the joy of the gathering of friends and family and the renewal of love and forgiveness at Christmas
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Written on December 26, 2021
Submitted by Snodeel on December 27, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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