Advent Hymn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GHHG IJJI KLLK MNNM OPPOHQQH RSSR TUUT| Another mile a year | A |
| Pass'd by for ever And the warnings swell | B |
| From upper heaven to darkest depths of hell | B |
| O we are drawing near | A |
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| All through the waiting lands | C |
| Dim signs and tokens if unheeded throng | D |
| We feel them thickening as we pass along | D |
| Holding out fearful hands | C |
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| Light which in love sent down | E |
| That tender gleam on Eden's darken'd bowers | F |
| When sin had breathed the blight upon the flowers | F |
| Whereof death made his crown | E |
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| Light which did deign to stamp | G |
| The tables on that Arab mountain crest | H |
| Light which in shrouded glory once did rest | H |
| On Israelitish camp | G |
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| O day whose dawn was spread | I |
| Golden and clear on Judaea's terraced hills | J |
| O shining noon whose wax d beauty thrills | J |
| Earth and her quick and dead | I |
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| Come to our hearts we pray | K |
| Through open doors let gracious gleams come in | L |
| Fill us with light and life and let the sin | L |
| And darkness pass away | K |
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| Lord waken us who sleep | M |
| Strengthen the feeble knees and weak hands now | N |
| Teach us with prayer and work to measure how | N |
| The stealthy minutes creep | M |
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| Let not our lamp be dim | O |
| When in the night we hear the footsteps fall | P |
| Upon our threshold let death find us all | P |
| Watching in peace for him | O |
| Let us lie down to rest | H |
| In surest hope of endless life in store | Q |
| With happy reverent hands that strive no more | Q |
| Folded across our breast | H |
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| And when the angels come | R |
| And the sharp echo of the herald's cry | S |
| Pierces the dark and stillness where we lie | S |
| Cold in our sleep and dumb | R |
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| May we arise O King | T |
| In bridal garments beautiful and white | U |
| And do Thou coming in Thy godly might | U |
| Our crown of glory bring | T |
Ada Cambridge
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