Christmas Eve Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACBCBAA DDAEDEDAA FFAGFGFAA HHAIHIHAA JJAKJKJAA LLMDLDL| Christmas Eve is here at last | A |
| And I'm happy as can be | B |
| Going to have a Christmas tree | B |
| And more toys than any past | A |
| Christmas saw or ever had | C |
| So my mother says for me | B |
| And I'm glad am just as glad | C |
| As a little boy can be | B |
| Christmas Eve is here at last | A |
| Christmas Eve is here at last | A |
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| And I'm going to bed to night | D |
| Early when it's candlelight | D |
| Christmas Day can't come too fast | A |
| I'll not go to sleep I think | E |
| But be wide awake when right | D |
| Here Old Santa with a wink | E |
| Down the chimney comes to night | D |
| Christmas Eve is here at last | A |
| Christmas Eve is here at last | A |
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| And the dining room and hall | F |
| Parlor too I guess and wall | F |
| All are hung with holly massed | A |
| With old mistletoe A smell | G |
| Sniffs of cedar over all | F |
| Every minute goes the bell | G |
| Parcels pack and pile the hall | F |
| Christmas Eve is here at last | A |
| Christmas Eve is here at last | A |
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| And it has begun to snow | H |
| Oh I'm so excited oh | H |
| Windows rattle and the blast | A |
| Shakes and mutters at the door | I |
| But that's not the wind I know | H |
| I have heard him there before | I |
| Santa Claus all furred with snow | H |
| Christmas Eve is here at last | A |
| Christmas Eve is here at last | A |
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| How the folks go hurrying by | J |
| I can see the snowflakes fly | J |
| By my window whirling past | A |
| Everywhere and our front yard | K |
| 'S covered white and my oh my | J |
| Hear the bells that jingle hard | K |
| Must be Santa sleighing by | J |
| Christmas Eve is here at last | A |
| Christmas Eve is here at last | A |
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| Tell you what I'm going to do | L |
| Hang my stockings up yes two | L |
| My two stockings for I asked | M |
| Mother and she said I might | D |
| Then I'll watch and cry 'That you | L |
| Santa ' when he comes to night | D |
| 'Hello Santa Howdy do | L |
| Christmas Eve is here at last ' | - |
Madison Julius Cawein
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