Peace On Earth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCAAA DDB BEEFFAAAAAA DDD AAGGHHAAAAAAAIIJJKKL MNNAABBOO AACCPPDDD JJQQAAA| He took a frayed hat from his head | A |
| And Peace on Earth was what he said | A |
| A morsel out of what you're worth | B |
| And there we have it Peace on Earth | B |
| Not much although a little more | C |
| Than what there was on earth before | C |
| I'm as you see I'm Ichabod | A |
| But never mind the ways I've trod | A |
| I'm sober now so help me God | A |
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| I could not pass the fellow by | D |
| Do you believe in God said I | D |
| And is there to be Peace on Earth | B |
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| Tonight we celebrate the birth | B |
| He said of One who died for men | E |
| The Son of God we say What then | E |
| Your God or mine I'd make you laugh | F |
| Were I to tell you even half | F |
| That I have learned of mine today | A |
| Where yours would hardly seem to stay | A |
| Could He but follow in and out | A |
| Some anthropoids I know about | A |
| The God to whom you may have prayed | A |
| Might see a world He never made | A |
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| Your words are flowing full said I | D |
| But yet they give me no reply | D |
| Your fountain might as well be dry | D |
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| A wiser One than you my friend | A |
| Would wait and hear me to the end | A |
| And for His eyes a light would shine | G |
| Through this unpleasant shell of mine | G |
| That in your fancy makes of me | H |
| A Christmas curiosity | H |
| All right I might be worse than that | A |
| And you might now be lying flat | A |
| I might have done it from behind | A |
| And taken what there was to find | A |
| Don't worry for I'm not that kind | A |
| 'Do I believe in God ' Is that | A |
| The price tonight of a new hat | A |
| Has He commanded that His name | I |
| Be written everywhere the same | I |
| Have all who live in every place | J |
| Identified His hidden face | J |
| Who knows but He may like as well | K |
| My story as one you may tell | K |
| And if He show me there be Peace | L |
| On Earth as there be fields and trees | M |
| Outside a jail yard am I wrong | N |
| If now I sing Him a new song | N |
| Your world is in yourself my friend | A |
| For your endurance to the end | A |
| And all the Peace there is on Earth | B |
| Is faith in what your world is worth | B |
| And saying without any lies | O |
| Your world could not be otherwise | O |
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| One might say that and then be shot | A |
| I told him and he said Why not | A |
| I ceased and gave him rather more | C |
| Than he was counting of my store | C |
| And since I have it thanks to you | P |
| Don't ask me what I mean to do | P |
| Said he Believe that even I | D |
| Would rather tell the truth than lie | D |
| On Christmas Eve No matter why | D |
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| His unshaved educated face | J |
| His inextinguishable grace | J |
| And his hard smile are with me still | Q |
| Deplore the vision as I will | Q |
| For whatsoever he be at | A |
| So droll a derelict as that | A |
| Should have at least another hat | A |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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