Christmas Greens Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFG HIHIJJ KCKCLL MNMNOO HBHBPP QMQMRS TDTDUU JHJHVV| Oh Lowbury pastor is fair and young | A |
| By far too good for a single life | B |
| And many a maiden saith gossip's tongue | A |
| Would fain be Lowbury pastor's wife | B |
| So his book marks are 'broidered in crimson and gold | C |
| And his slippers are really a sight to behold | C |
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| That's Lowbury pastor sitting there | D |
| On the cedar boughs by the chancel rails | E |
| His face is clouded with carking care | D |
| For it's nearly five the daylight fails | E |
| The church is silent the girls all gone | F |
| And the Christmas wreaths not nearly done | G |
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| Two tiny boots crunch crunch the snow | H |
| They saucily stamp at the transept door | I |
| And then up to the pillared aisle they go | H |
| Pit pat click clack on the marble floor | I |
| A lady fair doth that pastor see | J |
| And he saith Oh bother it isn't she | J |
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| A lady in seal skin eyes of blue | K |
| And tangled tresses of snow flecked gold | C |
| She speaks Good gracious can this be you | K |
| Sitting alone in the dark and cold | C |
| The rest all gone Why it wasn't right | L |
| These texts will never be done to night | L |
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| She sits her down at her pastor's feet | M |
| And wreathing evergreen weaves her wiles | N |
| Heart piercing glances bright and fleet | M |
| Soft little sighs and shy little smiles | N |
| But the pastor is solemnly sulky and glum | O |
| And thinketh it strange that she doesn't come | O |
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| Then she tells him earnestly soft and low | H |
| How she'd do her part in this world of strife | B |
| And humbly look to him to know | H |
| The path that her feet should tread through life | B |
| Her pastor yawneth behind his hat | P |
| And wondereth what she is driving at | P |
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| Crunch crunch again on the snow outside | Q |
| The pastor riseth unto his feet | M |
| The vestry door is opened wide | Q |
| A dark eyed maid doth the pastor greet | M |
| And that lady fair can see and hear | R |
| Her pastor kiss her and call her dear | S |
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| Why Maud Why Nelly those damsels cry | T |
| But lo what troubles that lady fair | D |
| On Nelly's finger there meets her eye | T |
| The glow of a diamond solitaire | D |
| And she thinks as she sees the glittering ring | U |
| And so she's got him the hateful thing | U |
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| There sit they all 'neath the Christmas tree | J |
| For Maud is determined that she wont go | H |
| The pastor is cross as a man can be | J |
| And Nelly would like to pinch her so | H |
| And they go on wreathing the text again | V |
| It is Peace on earth and good will towards men | V |
George Augustus Baker, Jr.
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