All On A Christmas Morning. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDD EFEFGHGHD IJIJCKCKD LHLHMNMND OPOPQMQMD| The wind it blew cold and the ice was thick | A |
| Deeper and deeper the snowdrifts grew | B |
| A young mother lay in her cottage sick | A |
| Her needs were many her comforts few | B |
| Clasped to her breast was a newborn child | C |
| Unknowing unmindful of weal or woe | D |
| And away far away in the tempest wild | C |
| Was a husband and father kneedeep in the snow | D |
| All on a Christmas morning long ago | D |
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| The lamp burned low and the fire was dead | E |
| And the snow sifted in through each crevice and crack | F |
| As she tossed and turned in her lowly bed | E |
| And murmured Good Lord bring my husband back | F |
| The clocks in the city had told the hour | G |
| With a single stroke for young was the day | H |
| But no swelling note from the loftiest tower | G |
| Could reach that lone cot where a mother lay | H |
| All on a Christmas morning long ago | D |
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| High on the moorland that crowned the hill | I |
| Bewildered benumbed midst the snow so deep | J |
| Fighting for life with a desperate will | I |
| Lost wearied and worn and oppressed with sleep | J |
| Was the husband and father with grief almost wild | C |
| Bearing cordials and medicine safely bestowed | K |
| That he'd been to obtain for his wife and child | C |
| Then exhausted he sank And it snowed and it snowed | K |
| All on a Christmas morning long ago | D |
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| The sun arose on a world so white | L |
| That glistened and sparkled beneath his ray | H |
| And the children's faces looked just as bright | L |
| As they cried What a glorious Christmas day | H |
| In a lowly cot lay a stiff white form | M |
| And all was still save a pitiful wail | N |
| No more should that mother fear sickness or storm | M |
| Together two spirits sped through the dark vale | N |
| All on a Christmas morning long ago | D |
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| Friends who were coming to bring good cheer | O |
| Found a young babe sucking a cold white breast | P |
| Noiselessly reverently gathering near | O |
| The orphan to full hearts was lovingly pressed | P |
| The parents were laid side by side in the grave | Q |
| And the babe grew in beauty of face and of form | M |
| And they still call her Snowdrop the name that they gave | Q |
| Sweet Snowdrop the frail little flower of the storm | M |
| All on a Christmas morning long ago | D |
John Hartley
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