Christmas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCA DEED FGGF HIIH AJJA EKKE LMML NOON APPA QRRQ STTS UEEU VSSV WXXW YAAY ZA2A2Z FSSF B2C2C2B2 D2E2E2D2| How grace this hallowed day | A |
| Shall happy bells from yonder ancient spire | B |
| Send their glad greetings to each Christmas fire | C |
| Round which the children play | A |
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| Alas for many a moon | D |
| That tongueless tower hath cleaved the Sabbath air | E |
| Mute as an obelisk of ice aglare | E |
| Beneath an Arctic noon | D |
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| Shame to the foes that drown | F |
| Our psalms of worship with their impious drum | G |
| The sweetest chimes in all the land lie dumb | G |
| In some far rustic town | F |
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| There let us think they keep | H |
| Of the dead Yules which here beside the sea | I |
| They've ushered in with old world English glee | I |
| Some echoes in their sleep | H |
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| How shall we grace the day | A |
| With feast and song and dance and antique sports | J |
| And shout of happy children in the courts | J |
| And tales of ghost and fay | A |
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| Is there indeed a door | E |
| Where the old pastimes with their lawful noise | K |
| And all the merry round of Christmas joys | K |
| Could enter as of yore | E |
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| Would not some pallid face | L |
| Look in upon the banquet calling up | M |
| Dread shapes of battles in the wassail cup | M |
| And trouble all the place | L |
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| How could we bear the mirth | N |
| While some loved reveler of a year ago | O |
| Keeps his mute Christmas now beneath the snow | O |
| In cold Virginian earth | N |
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| How shall we grace the day | A |
| Ah let the thought that on this holy morn | P |
| The Prince of Peace the Prince of Peace was born | P |
| Employ us while we pray | A |
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| Pray for the peace which long | Q |
| Hath left this tortured land and haply now | R |
| Holds its white court on some far mountain's brow | R |
| There hardly safe from wrong | Q |
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| Let every sacred fane | S |
| Call its sad votaries to the shrine of God | T |
| And with the cloister and the tented sod | T |
| Join in one solemn strain | S |
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| With pomp of Roman form | U |
| With the grave ritual brought from England's shore | E |
| And with the simple faith which asks no more | E |
| Than that the heart be warm | U |
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| He who till time shall cease | V |
| Will watch that earth where once not all in vain | S |
| He died to give us peace may not disdain | S |
| A prayer whose theme is peace | V |
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| Perhaps ere yet the Spring | W |
| Hath died into the Summer over all | X |
| The land the peace of His vast love shall fall | X |
| Like some protecting wing | W |
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| Oh ponder what it means | Y |
| Oh turn the rapturous thought in every way | A |
| Oh give the vision and the fancy play | A |
| And shape the coming scenes | Y |
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| Peace in the quiet dales | Z |
| Made rankly fertile by the blood of men | A2 |
| Peace in the woodland and the lonely glen | A2 |
| Peace in the peopled vales | Z |
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| Peace in the crowded town | F |
| Peace in a thousand fields of waving grain | S |
| Peace in the highway and the flowery lane | S |
| Peace on the wind swept down | F |
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| Peace on the farthest seas | B2 |
| Peace in our sheltered bays and ample streams | C2 |
| Peace wheresoe'er our starry garland gleams | C2 |
| And peace in every breeze | B2 |
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| Peace on the whirring marts | D2 |
| Peace where the scholar thinks the hunter roams | E2 |
| Peace God of Peace peace peace in all our homes | E2 |
| And peace in all our hearts | D2 |
Henry Timrod
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