A Christmas Hymn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGHGHIJIJ KDKDLMLMNOPO| Near where the shepherds watched by night | A |
| And heard the angels o'er them | B |
| The wise men saw the starry light | A |
| Stand still at last before them | B |
| No armored castle there to ward | C |
| His precious life from danger | D |
| But wrapped in common cloth our Lord | C |
| Lay in a lowly manger | D |
| No booming bells proclaimed his birth | E |
| No armies marshalled by | F |
| No iron thunders shook the earth | E |
| No rockets clomb the sky | F |
| The temples builded in his name | G |
| Were shapeless granite then | H |
| And all the choirs that sang his fame | G |
| Were later breeds of men | H |
| But while the world about him slept | I |
| Nor cared that he was born | J |
| One gentle face above him kept | I |
| Its mother watch till morn | J |
| And if his baby eyes could tell | K |
| What grace and glory were | D |
| No roar of gun no boom of bell | K |
| Were worth the look of her | D |
| Now praise to God that ere his grace | L |
| Was scorned and he reviled | M |
| He looked into his mother's face | L |
| A little helpless child | M |
| And praise to God that ere men strove | N |
| About his tomb in war | O |
| One loved him with a mother's love | P |
| Nor knew a creed therefor | O |
John Charles Mcneill
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about A Christmas Hymn poem by John Charles Mcneill
Best Poems of John Charles Mcneill