A Christmas Carol Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDECC FGFGCC GHGHCCThere's a song in the air | A |
There's a star in the sky | B |
There's a mother's deep prayer | A |
And a baby's low cry | B |
And the star rains its fire while the Beautiful sing | C |
For the manger of Bethlehem cradles a king | C |
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There's a tumult of joy | D |
O'er the wonderful birth | E |
For the virgin's sweet boy | D |
Is the Lord of the earth | E |
Ay the star rains its fire and the Beautiful sing | C |
For the manger of Bethlehem cradles a king | C |
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In the light of that star | F |
Lie the ages impearled | G |
And that song from afar | F |
Has swept over the world | G |
Every hearth is aflame and the Beautiful sing | C |
In the homes of the nations that Jesus is King | C |
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We rejoice in the light | G |
And we echo the song | H |
That comes down through the night | G |
From the heavenly throng | H |
Ay we shout to the lovely evangel they bring | C |
And we greet in his cradle our Saviour and King | C |
J. G. Holland
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