Analysis of A Christmas wish to you

Royston 1946 (Reading)



May the true meaning of Christmas be yours
as God’s wonderful blessing outpours
upon a world that He so greatly adores.
May the love of that first Christmas be yours.


Scheme ABBA
Poetic Form Enclosed rhyme
Quatrain 
Metre 1011011011 11100101 01011111001 1011111011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 169
Words 32
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 134
Words per stanza (avg) 30

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A wish on the first day of Advent

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Submitted by royston on December 01, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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