A Hymn For Christmas Morning Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CBBC DDDD EFFE DGGD HIIH EDDE DJJ| IT is the Christmas time | A |
| And up and down 'twixt heaven and earth | B |
| In glorious grief and solemn mirth | B |
| The shining angels climb | A |
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| And unto everything | C |
| That lives and moves for heaven on earth | B |
| With equal share of grief and mirth | B |
| The shining angels sing | C |
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| 'Babes new born undefiled | D |
| In lowly hut or mansion wide | D |
| Sleep safely through this Christmas tide | D |
| When Jesus was a child | D |
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| 'O young men bold and free | E |
| In peopled town or desert grim | F |
| When ye are tempted like to Him | F |
| 'The man Christ Jesus' see | E |
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| 'Poor mothers with your hoard | D |
| Of endless love and countless pain | G |
| Remember all her grief her gain | G |
| The Mother of the Lord | D |
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| 'Mourners half blind with woe | H |
| Look up One standeth in this place | I |
| And by the pity of His face | I |
| The Man of Sorrows know | H |
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| 'Wanderers in far countrie | E |
| O think of Him who came forgot | D |
| To His own and they received Him not | D |
| Jesus of Galilee | E |
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| 'O all ye who have trod | D |
| The wine press of affliction lay | J |
| Your hearts before His heart this day | J |
| Behold the Christ of God ' | - |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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