Christmas Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GFHIJKLMNOCPQRSITU VWXYZA2FB2C2D2E2F2G2 H2EI2J2K2TL2M2N2 CO2P2Q2R2D2BS2T2HEO2 O2U2| Yet once more and once more awake my Harp | A |
| From silence and neglect one lofty strain | B |
| Lofty yet wilder than the winds of Heaven | C |
| And speaking mysteries more than words can tell | D |
| I ask of thee for I with hymnings high | E |
| Would join the dirge of the departing year | F |
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| Yet with no wintry garland from the woods | G |
| Wrought of the leafless branch or ivy sear | F |
| Wreathe I thy tresses dark December now | H |
| Me higher quarrel calls with loudest song | I |
| And fearful joy to celebrate the day | J |
| Of the Redeemer Near two thousand suns | K |
| Have set their seals upon the rolling lapse | L |
| Of generations since the dayspring first | M |
| Beam'd from on high Now to the mighty mass | N |
| Of that increasing aggregate we add | O |
| One unit more Space in comparison | C |
| How small yet mark'd with how much misery | P |
| Wars famines and the fury Pestilence | Q |
| Over the nations hanging her dread scourge | R |
| The oppressed too in silent bitterness | S |
| Weeping their sufferance and the arm of wrong | I |
| Forcing the scanty portion from the weak | T |
| And steeping the lone widow's couch with tears | U |
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| So has the year been character'd with woe | V |
| In Christian land and mark'd with wrongs and crimes | W |
| Yet 't was not thus He taught not thus He lived | X |
| Whose birth we this day celebrate with prayer | Y |
| And much thanksgiving He a man of woes | Z |
| Went on the way appointed path though rude | A2 |
| Yet borne with patience still He came to cheer | F |
| The broken hearted to raise up the sick | B2 |
| And on the wandering and benighted mind | C2 |
| To pour the light of truth O task divine | D2 |
| O more than angel teacher He had words | E2 |
| To soothe the barking waves and hush the winds | F2 |
| And when the soul was toss'd in troubled seas | G2 |
| Wrapp'd in thick darkness and the howling storm | H2 |
| He pointing to the star of peace on high | E |
| Arm'd it with holy fortitude and bade it smile | I2 |
| At the surrounding wreck | J2 |
| When with deep agony his heart was rack'd | K2 |
| Not for himself the tear drop dew'd his cheek | T |
| For them He wept for them to Heaven He pray'd | L2 |
| His persecutors Father pardon them | M2 |
| They know not what they do | N2 |
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| Angels of Heaven | C |
| Ye who beheld Him fainting on the cross | O2 |
| And did him homage say may mortal join | P2 |
| The halleluiahs of the risen God | Q2 |
| Will the faint voice and grovelling song be heard | R2 |
| Amid the seraphim in light divine | D2 |
| Yes he will deign the Prince of Peace will deign | B |
| For mercy to accept the hymn of faith | S2 |
| Low though it be and humble Lord of life | T2 |
| The Christ the Comforter thine advent now | H |
| Fills my uprising soul I mount I fly | E |
| Far o'er the skies beyond the rolling orbs | O2 |
| The bonds of flesh dissolve and earth recedes | O2 |
| And care and pain and sorrow are no more | U2 |
Henry Kirk White
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