Christmas Hymn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD BEBE BCBC FGHG IJIJ KLKL MNMN OOOP QRQR| O CHRIST born on the holy day | A |
| I have no gift to give my King | B |
| No flowers grow by my weary way | A |
| I have no birthday song to sing | B |
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| How can I sing Thy name and praise | C |
| Who never saw Thy face divine | D |
| Who walk in darkness all my days | C |
| And see no Eastern stars a shine | D |
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| Yet when their Christmas gifts they bring | B |
| How can I leave Thy praise unsung | E |
| How stay from homage to the King | B |
| And hold a silent grudging tongue | E |
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| Lord I found many a song to sing | B |
| And many a humble hymn of praise | C |
| For Thy great Miracle of Spring | B |
| The wonder of the waxing days | C |
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| When I beheld Thy days and years | F |
| Did I not sing Thy pleasant earth | G |
| The moons of love the years of tears | H |
| The mysteries of death and birth | G |
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| Have I not sung with all my soul | I |
| While soul and song were mine to yield | J |
| Thy lightning crown Thy cloud control | I |
| The dewy clover of Thy field | J |
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| Have I not loved Thy birds and beasts | K |
| Thy streams and woods Thy sun and shade | L |
| Have I not made me holy feasts | K |
| Of all the beauty Thou hast made | L |
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| What though my tear tired eyes alas | M |
| Won never grace Thy face to see | N |
| I heard Thy footstep on the grass | M |
| Thy voice in every wind blown tree | N |
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| No music now I make or win | O |
| Yet Lord remember I have been | O |
| The lover of Thy world wherein | O |
| I found nought common or unclean | P |
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| Grown old and blind I sing no more | Q |
| Thy saints in heaven sing sweet and strong | R |
| Yet take the songs I made of yore | Q |
| For echoes to Thy birthday song | R |
Edith Nesbit
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