A Christmas Carol Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IBIB BJBJ KLKL FMFM NO O PQP RBSB BTBT UBUB QLQL VWVW XYXY ZA2ZA2 B2C2B2C2 YBYB| Hark In the air around above | A |
| The Angelic Music soars and swells | B |
| And in the Garden that I love | A |
| I hear the sound of Christmas Bells | B |
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| From hamlet hollow village height | C |
| The silvery Message seems to start | D |
| And far away its notes to night | C |
| Are surging through the city's heart | D |
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| Assurance clear to those who fret | E |
| O'er vanished Faith and feelings fled | F |
| That not in English homes is yet | E |
| Tradition dumb or Reverence dead | F |
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| Nor when anew from town girt tower | G |
| Or fen swept spire the Yule bells peal | H |
| Are those who watch o'er England's power | G |
| Too wise to pray too proud to kneel | H |
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| Now onward floats the sacred tale | I |
| Past leafless woodlands freezing rills | B |
| It wakes from sleep the silent vale | I |
| It skims the mere it scales the hills | B |
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| And rippling on up rings of space | B |
| Sounds faint and fainter as more high | J |
| Till mortal ear no more may trace | B |
| The music homeward to the sky | J |
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| To courtly roof and rustic cot | K |
| Old comrades wend from far and wide | L |
| Now is the ancient feud forgot | K |
| The growing grudge is laid aside | L |
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| Bright on the board the gifts are spread | F |
| The flagons gleam the trenchers smoke | M |
| The boar's is now the laurelled head | F |
| Now is the Feast of simple folk | M |
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| The ag d tell of ancient cheer | N |
| And boast 'twas merrier then than now | O |
| The children shout A glad New Year ' | - |
| And kiss beneath the berried bough | O |
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| But in the pauses of their mirth | P |
| The Heavenly Hymn is carolled still | Q |
| Glory to God on high on Earth | P |
| Peace and to all mankind good will ' | - |
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| Peace and good will 'twixt rich and poor | R |
| Good will and peace 'twixt class and class | B |
| Let old with new let Prince with boor | S |
| Send round the bowl and drain the glass | B |
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| That still behind the steely sea | B |
| That guards our greatness like a sword | T |
| The free born children of the free | B |
| May own one law one land one lord | T |
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| And never in our midst may sound | U |
| Discordant voice or threat morose | B |
| But every Year that circles round | U |
| May find and bind us yet more close | B |
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| But not alone for those who still | Q |
| Within the Mother Land abide | L |
| We deck the porch we dress the sill | Q |
| And fling the portals open wide | L |
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| But unto all of British blood | V |
| Whether they cling to Egbert's Throne | W |
| Or far beyond the Western flood | V |
| Have reared a Sceptre of their own | W |
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| And half regretful yearn to win | X |
| Their way back home and fondly claim | Y |
| The rightful share of kith and kin | X |
| In Alfred's glory Shakespeare's fame | Y |
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| We pile the logs we troll the stave | Z |
| We waft the tidings wide and far | A2 |
| And speed the wish on wind and wave | Z |
| To Southern Cross and Northern Star | A2 |
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| Yes Peace on earth Atlantic strand | B2 |
| Peace and good will Pacific shore | C2 |
| Across the waters stretch your hand | B2 |
| And be our brothers more and more | C2 |
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| Blood of our blood in every clime | Y |
| Race of our race by every sea | B |
| To you we sing the Christmas rhyme | Y |
| For you we light the Christmas tree | B |
Alfred Austin
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