A Christmas Carol Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCB DEDEFFFB GHIHJJJB CKCKLLLB CMCMNOOB PQRQNNNB SCSCTTTB SASAAAAB UEUEAAAB SESESSSB VBWBXYXB SHSHEEEB| So now is come our joyful'st feast | A |
| Let every man be jolly | B |
| Each room with ivy leaves is drest | A |
| And every post with holly | B |
| Though some churls at our mirth repine | C |
| Round your foreheads garlands twine | C |
| Drown sorrow in a cup of wine | C |
| And let us all be merry | B |
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| Now all our neighbors' chimneys smoke | D |
| And Christmas blocks are burning | E |
| Their ovens they with bak'd meats choke | D |
| And all their spits are turning | E |
| Without the door let sorrow lie | F |
| And if for cold it hap to die | F |
| We'll bury 't in a Christmas pie | F |
| And evermore be merry | B |
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| Now every lad is wondrous trim | G |
| And no man minds his labor | H |
| Our lasses have provided them | I |
| A bag pipe and a tabor | H |
| Young men and maids and girls and boys | J |
| Give life to one another's joys | J |
| And you anon shall by their noise | J |
| Perceive that they are merry | B |
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| Rank misers now do sparing shun | C |
| Their hall of music soundeth | K |
| And dogs thence with whole shoulders run | C |
| So all things there aboundeth | K |
| The country folk themselves advance | L |
| For crowdy mutton's come out of France | L |
| And Jack shall pipe and Jill shall dance | L |
| And all the town be merry | B |
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| Ned Swash hath fetch'd his bands from pawn | C |
| And all his best apparel | M |
| Brisk Nell hath bought a ruff of lawn | C |
| With droppings of the barrel | M |
| And those that hardly all the year | N |
| Had bread to eat or rags to wear | O |
| Will have both clothes and dainty fare | O |
| And all the day be merry | B |
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| Now poor men to the justices | P |
| With capons make their arrants | Q |
| And if they hap to fail of these | R |
| They plague them with their warrants | Q |
| But now they feed them with good cheer | N |
| And what they want they take in beer | N |
| For Christmas comes but once a year | N |
| And then they shall be merry | B |
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| Good farmers in the country nurse | S |
| The poor that else were undone | C |
| Some landlords spend their money worse | S |
| On lust and pride at London | C |
| There the roisters they do play | T |
| Drab and dice their land away | T |
| Which may be ours another day | T |
| And therefore let's be merry | B |
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| The client now his suit forbears | S |
| The prisoner's heart is eased | A |
| The debtor drinks away his cares | S |
| And for the time is pleased | A |
| Though others' purses be more fat | A |
| Why should we pine or grieve at that | A |
| Hang sorrow care will kill a cat | A |
| And therefore let's be merry | B |
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| Hark how the wags abroad do call | U |
| Each other forth to rambling | E |
| Anon you'll see them in the hall | U |
| For nuts and apples scrambling | E |
| Hark how the roofs with laughters sound | A |
| Anon they'll think the house goes round | A |
| For they the cellar's depth have found | A |
| And there they will be merry | B |
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| The wenches with their wassail bowls | S |
| About the streets are singing | E |
| The boys are come to catch the owls | S |
| The wild mare in is bringing | E |
| Our kitchen boy hath broke his box | S |
| And to the dealing of the ox | S |
| Our honest neighbors come by flocks | S |
| And here they will be merry | B |
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| Now kings and queens poor sheepcotes have | V |
| And mate with everybody | B |
| The honest now may play the knave | W |
| And wise men play at noddy | B |
| Some youths will now a mumming go | X |
| Some others play at rowlandhoe | Y |
| And twenty other gameboys moe | X |
| Because they will be merry | B |
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| Then wherefore in these merry days | S |
| Should we I pray be duller | H |
| No let us sing some roundelays | S |
| To make our mirth the fuller | H |
| And whilst thus inspir'd we sing | E |
| Let all the streets with echoes ring | E |
| Woods and hills and everything | E |
| Bear witness we are merry | B |
George Wither
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