Christmas Fancies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBAA CCAACC DDBBDD EEFBEE GGHHGG IIJJII| When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow | A |
| We hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago | A |
| And etched on vacant places | B |
| Are half forgotten faces | B |
| Of friends we used to cherish and loves we used to know | A |
| When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow | A |
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| Uprising from the ocean of the present surging near | C |
| We see with strange emotion that is not free from fear | C |
| That continent Elysian | A |
| Long vanished from our vision | A |
| Youth s lovely lost Atlantis so mourned for and so dear | C |
| Uprising from the ocean of the present surging near | C |
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| When gloomy gray Decembers are roused to Christmas mirth | D |
| The dullest life remembers there once was joy on earth | D |
| And draws from youth s recesses | B |
| Some memory it possesses | B |
| And gazing through the lens of time exaggerates its worth | D |
| When gloomy gray December is roused to Christmas mirth | D |
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| When hanging up the holly or mistletoe I wis | E |
| Each heart recalls some folly that lit the world with bliss | E |
| Not all the seers and sages | F |
| With wisdom of the ages | B |
| Can give the mind such pleasure as memories of that kiss | E |
| When hanging up the holly or mistletoe I wis | E |
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| For life was made for loving and love alone repays | G |
| As passing years are proving for all of Time s sad ways | G |
| There lies a sting in pleasure | H |
| And fame gives shallow measure | H |
| And wealth is but a phantom that mocks the restless days | G |
| For life was made for loving and only loving pays | G |
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| When Christmas bells are pelting the air with silver chimes | I |
| And silences are melting to soft melodious rhymes | I |
| Let Love the worlds beginning | J |
| End fear and hate and sinning | J |
| Let Love the God Eternal be worshipped in all climes | I |
| When Christmas bells are pelting the air with silver chimes | I |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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