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Two Christmas Eves Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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I	A
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THE white snow veils the earth's brown face	B
Strong frost has bound the veil in place	B
Under the wide clear dark blue sky	A
All choked with snow the hollows lie	A
Dead white the fields once summer sweet	C
And woodlands where we used to meet	C
We don't meet now we never part	D
Ever together heart to heart	D
We've worked lost often seldom won	E
Seen pleasures ended pains begun	E
Have done our best and faced we two	F
Almost the worst that Fate could do	F
Yet not Fate's uttermost of ill	G
Since here we are together still	G
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For me you left my dearest best	H
Your girlhood's safe warm sheltered nest	H
For me gave up all else that could	I
Have made your woman life seem good	I
You thought a man's whole heart was worth	J
Just all the other wealth of earth	J
I thought my painter's brush would be	K
A magic wand for you and me	K
What dreams we had of fame and gold	L
Of Art that never could withhold	L
From me who loved her so full powers	M
To make my love for her serve ours	M
To shape and build a palace fair	N
Of radiant hours and place you there	N
Art turned away her face from us	O
And all the dreaming's ended thus	O
Our garret's cold the wind is keen	P
And cuts these rotten boards between	P
There is no lock upon the door	Q
No carpet on the uneven floor	Q
No curtain to the window where	N
Through frost blanched panes the moon's cold stare	N
Fronts us She's careless used to see	K
This world of ours and misery	K
Why how you shiver Oh my sweet	C
How cold your hands are and your feet	C
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How hot this face of yours I kiss	R
How could our love have led to this	R
What devil is there over all	S
That lets such things as this befall	S
It was not want of striving Love	T
Bear witness for me how I strove	U
Worked till I grew quite sick and faint	V
Worked till I could not see to paint	V
Because my eyes were sore and wet	W
Yet never sold one picture yet	W
We would have worked yes there's the sting	X
We would have worked at anything	X
Our hands asked work There's work somewhere	N
That makes it all more hard to bear	N
Yet we could never understand	Y
Where is the work that asks our hand	Y
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There's no more firing and the cold	L
Is biting through your shawl's thin fold	L
And both the blankets have been sold	L
Nestle beside me in my arm	Z
And let me try to keep you warm	A2
We pawned the table and the bed	B2
To get our last week's fire and bread	B2
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And now the last crust's eaten Well	C2
There's nothing left to pawn or sell	C2
Our rent is due on Monday too	F
How can we pay it I and you	F
What shall we do What shall we do	F
And we are what was that you said	B2
You are so tired Your dearest head	B2
Is burning hot and aching so	D2
Ah yes I know it is I know	D2
You're tired and weak and faint and ill	G
And fevers burn and shiverings chill	G
This world of mine I'm holding here	E2
If I could suffer only dear	F2
But all the burdens on you fall	S
And I sit here and bear it all	S
And other men and other wives	G2
Who never worked in all their lives	H2
No nor yet loved as we have sweet	C
Are wrapped in furs warm hands and feet	C
And feast to night in homes made bright	I2
With blazing logs and candle light	I2
Not dark like this where we two sit	J2
Who chose to work and starve for it	J2
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Don't go to sleep you mustn't sleep	K2
Here on the frozen floor Yes creep	K2
Closer to me Oh if I knew	F
What is this something left to do	F
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Listen to me It's Christmas Eve	L2
When hearts grow warmer I believe	L2
And friends forget and friends forgive	M2
What if we stifled down my pride	N2
And put your bitter thoughts aside	N2
And asked your father's help once more	Q
True when we asked for it before	Q
He turned and cursed us both and swore	Q
That he disowned you You and I	A
Had made our bed and there must lie	A
That he would help us not one whit	J2
Though we should die for want of it	J2
Now I shall ask his help again	O2
It's colder now than it was then	O2
The cold creeps closer to life's core	Q
Death's nearer to us than before	Q
And when your father sees how near	F2
He may relent and save you dear	F2
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For my sake love I am too weak	P2
To bear your tears upon my cheek	P2
Your sobs against my heart to bear	N
Those eyes of yours and their despair	N
Not faltering my own pain I bore	Q
I cannot bear yours any more	Q
Stand up You're stiff That will not last	Q2
The stairs are dark They'll soon be passed	Q2
You're tired My sweet I know you are	R2
But try to walk it isn't far	R2
Oh that the Christ they say was born	S2
On that dream distant Christmas morn	S2
May hear and help us now Be strong	T2
Yes lean on me Perhaps ere long	T2
All this gone by will only seem	U2
A half remembered evil dream	U2
Come I will help you walk We'll try	A
Just this last venture you and I	A
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II	A
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Failed Back again in the ice gloom	V2
Of our bare bleak rat haunted room	V2
The moon still looks what does she care	N
To see my moon flower lying there	N
My rose once red and white and fair	N
Now white and wan and pinched and thin	W2
Cold through the coat I've wrapped her in	W2
And shivering even in her sleep	K2
To hear how wakeful rats can keep	K2
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We dragged our weary faltering feet	C
Through the bright noisy crowded street	C
And reached the square where stern in stone	X2
Her father's town house sulks alone	X2
Sick stupid helpless wretched poor	Y2
We waited at her father's door	Q
They let us in Then let us tread	B2
Through the warm hall with soft furs spread	B2
Next 'Name and business ' Oh exact	Z2
Were the man's orders how to act	Z2
If e'er his master's child should come	A3
To cross the threshold of her home	B3
I told our name The man 'would see	K
If any message was' for me	K
We waited there without a word	C3
How warm the whole house was We heard	C3
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Soft music with soft voices blent	C3
And smelt sweet flowers with mingled scent	C3
And heard the wine poured out that chink	D3
That glass makes as the diners drink	D3
The china clatter We at least	C3
Appreciated that night's feast	C3
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Then some one gave a note to me	K
With insolent smile I read 'When she	K
Is tired of love and poverty	K
And chooses to return to what	C3
She left the duties she forgot	C3
And never see again this man	E3
And be here as before she can '	-
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We came away that much is clear	F2
I don't know how we got back here	E2
I must have carried her somehow	F3
And have been strong enough And now	F3
She lies asleep and I awake	G3
Must do this something for her sake	G3
The only possible thing to do	C3
Oh love to cut our soul in two	C3
And take 'this man' away from you	C3
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If now I let your father know	D2
My choice is made and that I go	D2
And you are here oh love oh wife	H3
I break my heart and save your life	H3
Doubt what to do All doubt's about	C3
The deeds that are not worth a doubt	C3
This deed takes me and I obey	I3
And there is nothing left to say	I3
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Good bye dear eyes I cannot see	K
Weep only gently eyes for me	K
Dear lips I've kissed and kissed again	O2
Lose those encircling lines of pain	J3
Dear face so thin and faded now	F3
Win back youth's grace and light and glow	D2
Oh hands I hold in mine oh heart	C3
That holds mine in it we must part	C3
When you wake up and find me fled	C3
And find your father here instead	C3
Will you not wonder how my feet	C3
Ever could turn from you my sweet	C3
Ah no your heart and mine are one	E
Our heart will tell you how 'twas done	E
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No more we meet until I've won	E
Enough to dare be happy on	K3
And if I fail I have known bliss	R
And bliss has bred an hour like this	R
I am past Fate's harming all her power	L3
Could mix nought bitterer than this hour	L3
Good bye our room our marriage life	H3
Oh kiss me through your dreams my wife	H3
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III	A
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I have grown rich I have found out	C3
The thing men break their hearts about	C3
I have dug gold and gold and sold	C3
My diggings and reaped in more gold	C3
Sowed that and reaped again and played	C3
For stakes and always won and made	C3
More money than we'll ever spend	C3
And have forborne one word to send	C3
It has been easier for her so	D2
To wait one year and then to know	D2
How all is well and how	F3