The Christmas Of 1888 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GGEEEE HHIJJI KKEJJE| Low in the east against a white cold dawn | A |
| The black lined silhouette of the woods was drawn | A |
| And on a wintry waste | B |
| Of frosted streams and hillsides bare and brown | C |
| Through thin cloud films a pallid ghost looked down | C |
| The waning moon half faced | B |
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| In that pale sky and sere snow waiting earth | D |
| What sign was there of the immortal birth | D |
| What herald of the One | E |
| Lo swift as thought the heavenly radiance came | F |
| A rose red splendor swept the sky like flame | F |
| Up rolled the round bright sun | E |
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| And all was changed From a transfigured world | G |
| The moon's ghost fled the smoke of home hearths curled | G |
| Up the still air unblown | E |
| In Orient warmth and brightness did that morn | E |
| O'er Nain and Nazareth when the Christ was born | E |
| Break fairer than our own | E |
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| The morning's promise noon and eve fulfilled | H |
| In warm soft sky and landscape hazy hilled | H |
| And sunset fair as they | I |
| A sweet reminder of His holiest time | J |
| A summer miracle in our winter clime | J |
| God gave a perfect day | I |
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| The near was blended with the old and far | K |
| And Bethlehem's hillside and the Magi's star | K |
| Seemed here as there and then | E |
| Our homestead pine tree was the Syrian palm | J |
| Our heart's desire the angels' midnight psalm | J |
| Peace and good will to men | E |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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