The Goblins' Christmas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE EGHGIJIJ KLKLBEBE MNMNEOEO KKPKQRSR TKTKEKKK KEKEKUKF KVKORWRW KWKW KXKX KKKK KIEI YKWK XWZW A2KB2K EXC2X| The big bright Moon hung high and round | A |
| In a densely darkened sky | B |
| The tall pines swayed and mocked and groaned | C |
| The mountains grew so high | B |
| That the Man in the Moon came out and said | D |
| Ho Spooks for a merry dance | E |
| The winds blow hard the caverns roar | F |
| While o'er the earth they prance | E |
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| A Witch and a Goblin led the sprites | E |
| Out from the sky they sprung | G |
| And down the milky way they slid | H |
| And over a chasm swung | G |
| The streams around ran witches' broth | I |
| The fumes were strong and rank | J |
| These Elfin creatures all were wroth | I |
| While of the stuff they drank | J |
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| The cunning Moon looked on and laughed | K |
| With a shrill and sneering jibe | L |
| Her soul grew fat to see them chaffed | K |
| This mad and elfish tribe | L |
| The big black caldron boiled so high | B |
| With food for these queer mites | E |
| That it lit the world throughout the sky | B |
| And down came all the Sprites | E |
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| Their mad career upset a star | M |
| As through the air they flew | N |
| It cringed in fear and shot afar | M |
| And fell where no one knew | N |
| Orion's sword was broke in bits | E |
| Corona's crown was gone | O |
| Capella seemed to lose her wits | E |
| While all so longed for dawn | O |
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| Then from the night there came a sound | K |
| Of sleigh bells ringing sweet | K |
| Out of the chaos came a man | P |
| Kris Kringle for his Christmas treat | K |
| Ho Kris they cried We'll have some fun | Q |
| We'll bind the old man down | R |
| We'll tie him up and toss him o'er | S |
| Into our Goblin town | R |
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| They climbed the sleigh with shout and din | T |
| To bind his hands and feet | K |
| A hundred strong they clambered in | T |
| Our good old Kris to meet | K |
| He sat quite still with twinkling eyes | E |
| Then seized his mystic wand | K |
| He raised it up and waved it round | K |
| Stilled was this chattering band | K |
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| Stiffly stark and still they stood | K |
| Clad in elfish clothes | E |
| Some were wax and some were wood | K |
| One had crushed his nose | E |
| Playthings rare he said and smiled | K |
| For children rich and poor | U |
| Some I'll leave the crippled child | K |
| And some at the orphan's door | F |
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| He shook his reins and called his steed | K |
| To bear him swiftly on | V |
| Full well it knew its Master's need | K |
| To hurry e'er the dawn | O |
| From house to house they scampered down | R |
| Their sleigh bells ringing clear | W |
| Through chimneys in the sleepy town | R |
| Good Kris and his reindeer | W |
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| The windows rattled the moonbeams tattled | K |
| A tale so strange and queer | W |
| They told how at night in dire affright | K |
| The Moon had hid in fear | W |
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| That he'd called in sport his elfish court | K |
| Of spooks and witches gay | X |
| Each Elfin child by glee beguiled | K |
| Brought scores of others they say | X |
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| Then a man appeared with flowing beard | K |
| In a sled with a reindeer fleet | K |
| They gathered about with din and shout | K |
| To bind him hands and feet | K |
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| Then the Moon laughed loud at the gathering crowd | K |
| While he held his sides in mirth | I |
| To see old Kris in a plight like this | E |
| Toiling o'er the earth | I |
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| But alas for the Moon he had laughed like a loon | Y |
| For Kris is a hero of old | K |
| Yes Kris is a seer with his small reindeer | W |
| He captured the Goblins bold | K |
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| And he changed them they say in a wonderful way | X |
| To toys for his Christmas cheer | W |
| The big dolls stare with a goblin air | Z |
| The small ones cringe with fear | W |
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| While the moonbeams prattle I hear a rattle | A2 |
| Of hoofs on the chimney side | K |
| Then out on the snow I gaze below | B2 |
| Hurrah it's Kris Kringle I cried | K |
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| Then sly as a mouse he entered the house | E |
| And hung up his treasures so gay | X |
| Then out with a dash he sped like a flash | C2 |
| Into the night and away | X |
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