His Santa Claus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEECC FFGGCC| He will not come to him this year with all his old time joy | A |
| An imitation Santa Claus must serve his little boy | A |
| Last year he heard the reindeers paw the roof above his head | B |
| And as he dreamed the kindly saint tip toed about his bed | B |
| But Christmas Eve he will not come by any happy chance | C |
| This year his kindly Santa Claus must guard a trench in France | C |
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| His mother bravely tries to smile last Christmas Eve was gay | D |
| Last Christmas morn his daddy rose at dawn with him to play | D |
| This year he'll hang his stocking by the chimney but the hands | E |
| That filled it with the joys he craved now serve in foreign lands | E |
| He is too young to understand his mother's troubled glance | C |
| But he that was his Santa Claus is in a trench in France | C |
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| Somewhere in France this Christmas Eve a soldier brave will be | F |
| And all that night in fancy he will trim a Christmas tree | F |
| And all that night he'll live again the joys that once he had | G |
| When he was good St Nicholas unto a certain lad | G |
| And he will wonder if his boy by any sad mischance | C |
| Will find his stocking empty just because he serves in France | C |
Edgar Albert Guest
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Francis ngwenya: U display a good command of the english language,iam also a budding artist on this same platform,this is powerful,thanks
Francis ngwenya: U display a good command of the english language,iam also a budding artist on this same platform,this is powerful,thanks
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