Thoughts Of Christmas-day In India Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE CGCG HIJI KLJD JMJM NODP QCCC JRSR JJTJ UJUJ UTJT DDJV JJTJ DWJW XYJY JDTV| IT is Christmas and the sunshine | A |
| Lies golden on the fields | B |
| And flowers of white and purple | C |
| Yonder fragrant creeper yields | B |
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| Like the plumes of some bold warrior | D |
| The cocoa tree on high | E |
| Lifts aloft its feathery branches | F |
| Amid the deep blue sky | E |
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| From yonder shadowy peepul | C |
| The pale fair lilac dove | G |
| Like music from a temple | C |
| Sings a song of grief and love | G |
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| The earth is bright with blossoms | H |
| And a thousand jewelled wings | I |
| Mid the green boughs of the tamarind | J |
| A sudden sunshine flings | I |
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| For the East is earth's first born | K |
| And hath a glorious dower | L |
| As Nature there had lavished | J |
| Her beauty and her power | D |
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| And yet I pine for England | J |
| For my own my distant home | M |
| My heart is in that island | J |
| Where'er my steps may roam | M |
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| It is merry there at Christmas | N |
| We have no Christmas here | O |
| 'Tis a weary thing a summer | D |
| That lasts throughout the year | P |
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| I remember how the banners | Q |
| Hung round our ancient hall | C |
| Bound with wreaths of shining holly | C |
| Brave winter's coronal | C |
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| And above each rusty helmet | J |
| Waved a new and cheering plume | R |
| A branch of crimson berries | S |
| And the latest rose in bloom | R |
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| And the white and pearly misletoe | J |
| Hung half concealed o'er head | J |
| I remember one sweet maiden | T |
| Whose cheek it dyed with red | J |
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| The morning waked with carols | U |
| A young and joyous band | J |
| Of small and rosy songsters | U |
| Came tripping hand in hand | J |
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| And sang beneath our windows | U |
| Just as the round red sun | T |
| Began to melt the hoar frost | J |
| And the clear cold day begun | T |
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| And at night the aged harper | D |
| Played his old tunes o'er and o'er | D |
| From sixteen up to sixty | J |
| All were dancing on that floor | V |
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| Those were the days of childhood | J |
| The buoyant and the bright | J |
| When hope was life's sweet sovereign | T |
| And the heart and step were light | J |
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| I shall come again a stranger | D |
| To all that once I knew | W |
| For the hurried steps of manhood | J |
| From life's flowers have dash'd the dew | W |
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| I yet may ask their welcome | X |
| And return from whence I came | Y |
| But a change is wrought within me | J |
| They will not seem the same | Y |
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| For my spirits are grown weary | J |
| And my days of youth are o'er | D |
| And the mirth of that glad season | T |
| Is what I can feel no more | V |
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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