A Christmas Carol For 1862, The Year Of The Trouble In Lancashire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE FGFGHIJI KLKLMNMN OPOPQRSR KTKTUPUP VWVWXGXG| The skies are pale the trees are stiff | A |
| The earth is dull and old | B |
| The frost is glittering as if | A |
| The very sun were cold | B |
| And hunger fell is joined with frost | C |
| To make men thin and wan | D |
| Come babe from heaven or we are lost | C |
| Be born O child of man | E |
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| The children cry the women shake | F |
| The strong men stare about | G |
| They sleep when they should be awake | F |
| They wake ere night is out | G |
| For they have lost their heritage | H |
| No sweat is on their brow | I |
| Come babe and bring them work and wage | J |
| Be born and save us now | I |
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| Across the sea beyond our sight | K |
| Roars on the fierce debate | L |
| The men go down in bloody fight | K |
| The women weep and hate | L |
| And in the right be which that may | M |
| Surely the strife is long | N |
| Come son of man thy righteous way | M |
| And right will have no wrong | N |
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| Good men speak lies against thine own | O |
| Tongue quick and hearing slow | P |
| They will not let thee walk alone | O |
| And think to serve thee so | P |
| If they the children's freedom saw | Q |
| In thee the children's king | R |
| They would be still with holy awe | S |
| Or only speak to sing | R |
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| Some neither lie nor starve nor fight | K |
| Nor yet the poor deny | T |
| But in their hearts all is not right | K |
| They often sit and sigh | T |
| We need thee every day and hour | U |
| In sunshine and in snow | P |
| Child king we pray with all our power | U |
| Be born and save us so | P |
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| We are but men and women Lord | V |
| Thou art a gracious child | W |
| O fill our hearts and heap our board | V |
| Pray thee the winter's wild | W |
| The sky is sad the trees are bare | X |
| Hunger and hate about | G |
| Come child and ill deeds and ill fare | X |
| Will soon be driven out | G |
George Macdonald
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