Advent Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL MNMNOPOP QARADSDS BJBTUVUV WXWXYZYZ| 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 | C |
| Is still the watchman's word | D |
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| The Porter watches at the gate | E |
| The servants watch within | F |
| The watch is long betimes and late | E |
| The prize is slow to win | F |
| Watchman what of the night but still | G |
| His answer sounds the same | H |
| No daybreak tops the utmost hill | G |
| Nor pale our lamps of flame | H |
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| One to another hear them speak | I |
| The patient virgins wise | J |
| Surely He is not far to seek | I |
| All night we watch and rise | J |
| The days are evil looking back | K |
| The coming days are dim | L |
| Yet count we not His promise slack | K |
| But watch and wait for Him | L |
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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 | M |
| They urge us come up higher | N |
| 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 | P |
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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 | B |
| We laugh for day shall rise | J |
| We sing a slow contented song | B |
| 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 | X |
| Till daybreak smite our wearied sight | W |
| And summer smite the snow | X |
| Then figs shall bud and dove with dove | Y |
| Shall coo the livelong day | Z |
| Then He shall say Arise My love | Y |
| My fair one come away | Z |
Christina Rossetti
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