Christ's Nativity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDD EECCFG HHIIJJ KKLMNN OOPPQQ A RSTSUVUVWVWVXQXQRT| I | A |
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| Awake glad heart Get up and sing | B |
| It is the birthday of thy King | B |
| Awake Awake | C |
| The sun doth shake | C |
| Light from his locks and all the way | D |
| Breathing perfumes doth spice the day | D |
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| Awake awake Hark how the wood rings | E |
| Winds whisper and the busy springs | E |
| A consort make | C |
| Awake awake | C |
| Man is their high priest and should rise | F |
| To offer up the sacrifice | G |
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| I would I were some bird or star | H |
| Fluttering in woods or lifted far | H |
| Above this inn | I |
| And road of sin | I |
| Then either star or bird should be | J |
| Shining or singing still to Thee | J |
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| I would I had in my best part | K |
| Fit rooms for Thee Or that my heart | K |
| Were so clean as | L |
| Thy manger was | M |
| But I am all filth and obscene | N |
| Yet if Thou wilt Thou canst make clean | N |
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| Sweet Jesu will then Let no more | O |
| This leper haunt and soil Thy door | O |
| Curse him ease him | P |
| O release him | P |
| And let once more by mystic birth | Q |
| The Lord of life be born in earth | Q |
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| II | A |
| - | |
| How kind is heaven to man If here | R |
| One sinner doth amend | S |
| Straight there is joy and every sphere | T |
| In music doth contend | S |
| And shall we then no voices lift | U |
| Are mercy and salvation | V |
| Not worth our thanks Is life a gift | U |
| Of no more acceptation | V |
| Shall He that did come down from thence | W |
| And here for us was slain | V |
| Shall He be now cast off No sense | W |
| Of all His woes remain | V |
| Can neither Love nor sufferings bind | X |
| Are we all stone and earth | Q |
| Neither His bloody passions mind | X |
| Nor one day bless His birth | Q |
| Alas my God Thy birth now here | R |
| Must not be numbered in the year | T |
Henry Vaughan
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