Magnificat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HBHB IJIK LMLM NONO PQPQ| THIS is Christ's birthday long ago | A |
| He lay upon His Mother's knee | B |
| Who kissed and blessed Him soft and low | A |
| God's gift to her as you to me | B |
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| My baby dear my little one | C |
| The love that rocks this cradling breast | D |
| Is such as Mary gave her Son | C |
| She was more honoured not more blest | D |
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| He smiled as you smile not more sweet | E |
| Than your eyes were those eyes of His | F |
| And just such little hands and feet | E |
| As yours Our Lady used to kiss | G |
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| The world's desire that Mother bore | H |
| She held a King upon her knee | B |
| O King of all my world and more | H |
| Than all the world's desire to me | B |
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| I thank God on the Christmas morn | I |
| For He has given me all things good | J |
| This body which a child has borne | I |
| This breast made holy for his food | K |
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| High in high heaven Our Lady's throne | L |
| Beside her Son's stands up apart | M |
| I sit on heaven's steps alone | L |
| And hold my king against my heart | M |
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| Across dark depths she hears your cry | N |
| She sees your smile through worlds of blue | O |
| Who was a mother even as I | N |
| And loved her Child as I love you | O |
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| And to her heart my babe is dear | P |
| Because she bore the Babe Divine | Q |
| And all my soul to hers draws near | P |
| And loves Him for the sake of mine | Q |
Edith Nesbit
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