Christmas Eve Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFGF HCHC IJKJ LCLC MNMN A OCPC QRQR FCSC TUVU TAVA QWXW YZYZ A2MA2M| I | A |
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| From church and chapel and dome and tower | B |
| Near far and everywhere | C |
| The merry bells chime loud and clear | D |
| Upon the frosty air | C |
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| All down the marble avenues | E |
| The lamp lit casements glow | F |
| And from an hundred palaces | G |
| Glad carols float and flow | F |
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| A thousand lamps from street to street | H |
| Blaze on the dusky air | C |
| And light the way for happy feet | H |
| To carol praise and prayer | C |
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| 'Tis Christmas eve In church and hall | I |
| The laden fir trees bend | J |
| Glad children throng the festival | K |
| And grandsires too attend | J |
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| Fur wrapped and gemmed with pearls and gold | L |
| Proud ladies rich and fair | C |
| As Egypt's splendid queen of old | L |
| In all her pomp are there | C |
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| And many a costly golden gift | M |
| Hangs on each Christmas tree | N |
| While round and round the carols drift | M |
| In waves of melody | N |
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| II | A |
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| In a dim and dingy attic | O |
| Away from the pomp and glare | C |
| A widow sits by a flickering lamp | P |
| Bowed down by toil and care | C |
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| On her toil worn hand her weary head | Q |
| At her feet a shoe half bound | R |
| On the bare brown table a loaf of bread | Q |
| And hunger and want around | R |
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| By her side at the broken window | F |
| With her rosy feet all bare | C |
| Her little one carols a Christmas tune | S |
| To the chimes on the frosty air | C |
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| And the mother dreams of the by gone years | T |
| And their merry Christmas bells | U |
| Till her cheeks are wet with womanly tears | V |
| And a sob in her bosom swells | U |
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| The child looked up her innocent ears | T |
| Had caught the smothered cry | A |
| She saw the pale face wet with tears | V |
| She fain would pacify | A |
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| Don't cry mama she softly said | Q |
| Here's a Christmas gift for you | W |
| And on the mother's cheek a kiss | X |
| She printed warm and true | W |
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| God bless my child the mother cried | Y |
| And caught her to her breast | Z |
| O Lord whose Son was crucified | Y |
| Thy precious gift is best | Z |
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| If toil and trouble be my lot | A2 |
| While on life's sea I drift | M |
| O Lord my soul shall murmur not | A2 |
| If Thou wilt spare Thy gift | M |
Hanford Lennox Gordon
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