The True Christmas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEDDFFGGHH IIIIJKLLMM| So stick up ivy and the bays | A |
| And then restore the heathen ways | A |
| Green will remind you of the spring | B |
| Though this great day denies the thing | B |
| And mortifies the earth and all | C |
| But your wild revels and loose hall | C |
| Could you wear flowers and roses strow | D |
| Blushing upon your breasts' warm snow | D |
| That very dress your lightness will | E |
| Rebuke and wither at the ill | E |
| The brightness of this day we owe | D |
| Not unto music masque nor show | D |
| Nor gallant furniture nor plate | F |
| But to the manger's mean estate | F |
| His life while here as well as birth | G |
| Was but a check to pomp and mirth | G |
| And all man's greatness you may see | H |
| Condemned by His humility | H |
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| Then leave your open house and noise | I |
| To welcome Him with holy joys | I |
| And the poor shepherd's watchfulness | I |
| Whom light and hymns from heaven did bless | I |
| What you abound with cast abroad | J |
| To those that want and ease your load | K |
| Who empties thus will bring more in | L |
| But riot is both loss and sin | L |
| Dress finely what comes not in sight | M |
| And then you keep your Christmas right | M |
Henry Vaughan
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