To Santa Claus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH CCII CCAA JJKK AABB| Most tangible of all the gods that be | A |
| O Santa Claus our own since Infancy | A |
| As first we scampered to thee now as then | B |
| Take us as children to thy heart again | B |
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| Be wholly good to us just as of old | C |
| As a pleased father let thine arms infold | C |
| Us homed within the haven of thy love | D |
| And all the cheer and wholesomeness thereof | D |
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| Thou lone reality when O so long | E |
| Life's unrealities have wrought us wrong | E |
| Ambition hath allured us fame likewise | F |
| And all that promised honor in men's eyes | F |
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| Throughout the world's evasions wiles and shifts | G |
| Thou only bidest stable as thy gifts | G |
| A grateful king re ruleth from thy lap | H |
| Crowned with a little tinselled soldier cap | H |
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| A mighty general a nation's pride | C |
| Thou givest again a rocking horse to ride | C |
| And wildly glad he groweth as the grim | I |
| Old jurist with the drum thou givest him | I |
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| The sculptor's chisel at thy mirth's command | C |
| Is as a whistle in his boyish hand | C |
| The painters model fadeth utterly | A |
| And there thou standest and he painteth thee | A |
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| Most like a winter pippin sound and fine | J |
| And tingling red that ripe old face of thine | J |
| Set in thy frosty beard of cheek and chin | K |
| As midst the snows the thaws of spring set in | K |
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| Ho Santa Claus our own since Infancy | A |
| Most tangible of all the gods that be | A |
| As first we scampered to thee now as then | B |
| Take us as children to thy heart again | B |
James Whitcomb Riley
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