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