Christmas Party At The South Danbury Church Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHICJKKKLKKMHN KOPQ| December twenty first | A |
| we gather at the white Church festooned | B |
| red and green the tree flashing | C |
| green red lights beside the altar | D |
| After the children of Sunday School | E |
| recite Scripture sing songs | F |
| and scrape out solos | G |
| they retire to dress for the finale | H |
| to perform the pageant | I |
| again Mary and Joseph kneeling | C |
| cradleside Three Kings | J |
| shepherds and shepherdesses Their garments | K |
| are bathrobes with mothholes | K |
| cut down from the Church's ancestors | K |
| Standing short and long | L |
| they stare in all directions for mothers | K |
| sisters and brothers | K |
| giggling and waving in recognition | M |
| and at the South Danbury | H |
| Church a moment before Santa | N |
| arrives with her ho hos | K |
| and bags of popcorn in the half dark | O |
| of whole silence God | P |
| enters the world as a newborn again | Q |
Donald Hall
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