Advent Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFGHIH JKJ JLJ MN OPO QARADSDS JKJTUVUV WJWJXYX| This Advent moon shines cold and clear | A |
| These Advent nights are long | B |
| Our lamps have burned year after year | A |
| And still their flame is strong | B |
| 'Watchman what of the night ' we cry | C |
| Heart sick with hope deferred | D |
| 'No speaking signs are in the sky ' | E |
| Is still the watchman's word | D |
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| The Porter watches at the gate | F |
| The servants watch within | G |
| The watch is long betimes and late | F |
| The prize is slow to win | G |
| 'Watchman what of the night ' But still | H |
| His answer sounds the same | I |
| 'No daybreak tops the utmost hill | H |
| Nor pale our lamps of flame ' | - |
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| One to another hear them speak | J |
| The patient virgins wise | K |
| 'Surely He is not far to seek' | J |
| 'All night we watch and rise ' | - |
| 'The days are evil looking back | J |
| The coming days are dim | L |
| Yet count we not His promise slack | J |
| But watch and wait for Him ' | - |
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| One with another soul with soul | M |
| They kindle fire from fire | N |
| 'Friends watch us who have touched the goal ' | - |
| 'They urge us come up higher ' | - |
| 'With them shall rest our waysore feet | O |
| With them is built our home | P |
| With Christ ' 'They sweet but He most sweet | O |
| Sweeter than honeycomb ' | - |
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| There no more parting no more pain | Q |
| The distant ones brought near | A |
| The lost so long are found again | R |
| Long lost but longer dear | A |
| Eye hath not seen ear hath not heard | D |
| Nor heart conceived that rest | S |
| With them our good things long deferred | D |
| With Jesus Christ our Best | S |
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| We weep because the night is long | J |
| We laugh for day shall rise | K |
| We sing a slow contented song | J |
| And knock at Paradise | T |
| Weeping we hold Him fast Who wept | U |
| For us we hold Him fast | V |
| And will not let Him go except | U |
| He bless us first or last | V |
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| Weeping we hold Him fast to night | W |
| We will not let Him go | J |
| Till daybreak smite our wearied sight | W |
| And summer smite the snow | J |
| Then figs shall bud and dove with dove | X |
| Shall coo the livelong day | Y |
| Then He shall say 'Arise My love | X |
| My fair one come away ' | - |
Christina Georgina Rossetti
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