A Christmas Gift Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BBCCDEAAFFFGFG FFFF| Alack A Day for poverty | A |
| What jewels my mind doth give to thee | A |
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| Carved agate stone porphyrogene | B |
| Green emerald and beryl green | B |
| Deep sapphine and pale amethyst | C |
| Sly opal cloaking with a mist | C |
| The levin of its love elate | D |
| Shy brides' pearls flushed and delicate | E |
| Sea colored lapis lazuli | A |
| Sardonyx and chalcedony | A |
| Enkindling diamond candid gold | F |
| Red rubies and red garnets bold | F |
| And all their humors should be blent | F |
| In one intolerable blaze | G |
| Barbaric fierce and opulent | F |
| To dazzle him that dared to gaze | G |
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| Alack a day for poverty | F |
| My rhymes are all you get of me | F |
| Yet if your heart receive behold | F |
| The worthless words are set in gold | F |
Don Marquis
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