The House Of Christmas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDDB EFDFGGGF HBCBIIIB JKLMNNNK OPFBKKCB| There fared a mother driven forth | A |
| Out of an inn to roam | B |
| In the place where she was homeless | C |
| All men are at home | B |
| The crazy stable close at hand | D |
| With shaking timber and shifting sand | D |
| Grew a stronger thing to abide and stand | D |
| Than the square stones of Rome | B |
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| For men are homesick in their homes | E |
| And strangers under the sun | F |
| And they lay on their heads in a foreign land | D |
| Whenever the day is done | F |
| Here we have battle and blazing eyes | G |
| And chance and honour and high surprise | G |
| But our homes are under miraculous skies | G |
| Where the yule tale was begun | F |
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| A Child in a foul stable | H |
| Where the beasts feed and foam | B |
| Only where He was homeless | C |
| Are you and I at home | B |
| We have hands that fashion and heads that know | I |
| But our hearts we lost how long ago | I |
| In a place no chart nor ship can show | I |
| Under the sky's dome | B |
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| This world is wild as an old wives' tale | J |
| And strange the plain things are | K |
| The earth is enough and the air is enough | L |
| For our wonder and our war | M |
| But our rest is as far as the fire drake swings | N |
| And our peace is put in impossible things | N |
| Where clashed and thundered unthinkable wings | N |
| Round an incredible star | K |
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| To an open house in the evening | O |
| Home shall men come | P |
| To an older place than Eden | F |
| And a taller town than Rome | B |
| To the end of the way of the wandering star | K |
| To the things that cannot be and that are | K |
| To the place where God was homeless | C |
| And all men are at home | B |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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