Christmas Day, 1850 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC ABBA DEFDEF| Beautiful stories wed with lovely days | A |
| Like words and music what shall be the tale | B |
| Of love and nobleness that might avail | B |
| To express in action what this sweetness says | C |
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| The sweetness of a day of airs and rays | A |
| That are strange glories on the winter pale | B |
| Alas O beauty all my fancies fail | B |
| I cannot tell a story in thy praise | A |
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| Thou hast thou hast one set and sure to chime | D |
| With thee as with the days of winter wild | E |
| For Joy like Sorrow loves his blessed feet | F |
| Who shone from Heaven on Earth this Christmas time | D |
| A Brother and a Saviour Mary's child | E |
| And so fair day thou hast thy story sweet | F |
George Macdonald
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