The Second Coming Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDC EEFGGF HHAII JKLMML NNGOOG PPQRSL TTJUUK VVBAAB| How will Christ come back again | A |
| How will He be seen and where | B |
| Where His chosen way | C |
| Will He come in dead of night | D |
| Shining in His robes of light | D |
| Or at dawn of day | C |
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| Will it be at Christmas time | E |
| When the bells are all achime | E |
| That He is re born | F |
| Or will He return and bring | G |
| Wide and wondrous wakening | G |
| On some Easter morn | F |
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| When will this sad world rejoice | H |
| Listening to that golden voice | H |
| Speaking unto men | A |
| Lives there one who yet shall cry | I |
| Loud to startled passers by | I |
| 'Christ has come again ' | - |
| - | |
| List the answer Christ is here | J |
| Seek and you shall find him near | K |
| Dwelling on the earth | L |
| By the world's awakened thought | M |
| This great miracle is wrought | M |
| This the second birth | L |
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| While you wonder where and now | N |
| Christ shall come behold him NOW | N |
| Patient loving meek | G |
| Looking from your neighbour's eyes | O |
| Or in humble toiling guise | O |
| Lo the Christ you seek | G |
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| Look for him in human hearts | P |
| In the shops and in the marts | P |
| And beside your hearth | Q |
| Search and speak the watchword Love | R |
| And the Christ shall rise and prove | S |
| He has come to earth | L |
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| Sorrowful ofttimes is He | T |
| That we have not eyes to see | T |
| Have not ears to hear | J |
| As we call to Him afar | U |
| Out beyond some distant star | U |
| While He stands so near | K |
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| Seek Him seek Him where He dwells | V |
| Chime the voices of the bells | V |
| On the Christmas air | B |
| Christ has come to earth again | A |
| He is in the hearts of men | A |
| Seek and find him there | B |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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