Ballade Of Christmas Ghosts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC BBBBBCBC BBBBBCBC D BCBC| Between the moonlight and the fire | A |
| In winter twilights long ago | B |
| What ghosts we raised for your desire | A |
| To make your merry blood run slow | B |
| How old how grave how wise we grow | B |
| No Christmas ghost can make us chill | C |
| Save THOSE that troop in mournful row | B |
| The ghosts we all can raise at will | C |
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| The beasts can talk in barn and byre | B |
| On Christmas Eve old legends know | B |
| As year by year the years retire | B |
| We men fall silent then I trow | B |
| Such sights hath Memory to show | B |
| Such voices from the silence thrill | C |
| Such shapes return with Christmas snow | B |
| The ghosts we all can raise at will | C |
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| Oh children of the village choir | B |
| Your carols on the midnight throw | B |
| Oh bright across the mist and mire | B |
| Ye ruddy hearths of Christmas glow | B |
| Beat back the dread beat down the woe | B |
| Let's cheerily descend the hill | C |
| Be welcome all to come or go | B |
| The ghosts we all can raise at will | C |
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| ENVOY | D |
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| Friend sursum corda soon or slow | B |
| We part like guests who've joyed their fill | C |
| Forget them not nor mourn them so | B |
| The ghosts we all can raise at will | C |
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