Christ's Nativity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDBBEF GGHHII JJKLMM NNOOPP| Awake glad heart get up and sing | A |
| It is the birth day of thy King | A |
| Awake awake | B |
| The Sun doth shake | B |
| Light from his locks and all the way | C |
| Breathing perfumes doth spice the day | C |
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| Awake awake hark how th' wood rings | D |
| Winds whisper and the busy springs | D |
| A concert make | B |
| Awake awake | B |
| Man is their high priest and should rise | E |
| To offer up the sacrifice | F |
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| I would I were some bird or star | G |
| Flutt'ring in woods or lifted far | G |
| Above this inn | H |
| And road of sin | H |
| Then either star or bird should be | I |
| Shining or singing still to thee | I |
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| I would I had in my best part | J |
| Fit rooms for thee or that my heart | J |
| Were so clean as | K |
| Thy manger was | L |
| But I am all filth and obscene | M |
| Yet if thou wilt thou canst make clean | M |
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| Sweet Jesu will then Let no more | N |
| This leper haunt and soil thy door | N |
| Cure him ease him | O |
| O release him | O |
| And let once more by mystic birth | P |
| The Lord of life be born in earth | P |
Henry Vaughan
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