Analysis of Wartime Christmas
WARTIME CHRISTMAS by Joyce Kilmer
Led by a star, a golden star,
The youngest star, an olden star,
Here the kings and the shepherds are,
Akneeling on the ground.
What did they come to the inn to see?
God in the Highest, and this is He,
A baby asleep on His mother’s knee
And with her kisses crowned.
Now is the earth a dreary place,
A troubled place, a weary place.
Peace has hidden her lovely face
And turned in tears away.
Yet the sun, through the war-cloud, sees
Babies asleep on their mother’s knees.
While there are love and home—and these—
There shall be Christmas Day.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110 11010101 01011101 10100101 1101 111110111 100100111 0100111101 010101 11010101 01010101 11100101 010101 10110111 100111101 11110101 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 566 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 148 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
About this poem
Found "Wartime Christmas" online but no background information. My mother loved Kilmer's poems but was not familiar with this one.
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Submitted by realtorshirleyz on October 17, 2021
Modified on April 03, 2023
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