Nearing Christmas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBABCCDDCDEEFFEFGG HHGHIIJJIKLMNOMOGPQQ PQ| THE season of the rose and peace is past | A |
| It could not last | A |
| There's heartbreak in the hills and stormy sighs | B |
| Of sorrow in the rain lashed plains and skies | B |
| While Earth regards aghast | A |
| The last red leaf that flies | B |
| The world is cringing in the darkness where | C |
| War left his lair | C |
| And everything takes on a lupine look | D |
| Baring gaunt teeth at every peaceful nook | D |
| And shaking torrent hair | C |
| At every little brook | D |
| Cancers of ulcerous flame his eyes and hark | E |
| There in the dark | E |
| The ponderous stir of metal iron feet | F |
| And with it heard around the world the beat | F |
| Of Battle sounds that mark | E |
| His heart's advance retreat | F |
| With shrapnel pipes he goes his monstrous ways | G |
| And screeching plays | G |
| The hell born music Havoc dances to | H |
| And following with his skeleton headed crew | H |
| Of ravening Nights and Days | G |
| Horror invades the blue | H |
| Against the Heaven he lifts a mailed fist | I |
| And writes a list | I |
| Of beautiful cities on the ghastly sky | J |
| And underneath them with no reason why | J |
| In blood and tears and mist | I |
| The postscript 'These must die ' | K |
| Change is the portion and chief heritage | L |
| Of every Age | M |
| The spirit of God still waits its time And War | N |
| May blur His message for a while and mar | O |
| The writing on His page | M |
| To this our sorrowful star | O |
| But there above the conflict orbed in rays | G |
| Is drawn the face | P |
| Of Peace at last who comes into her own | Q |
| Peace from whose tomb the world shall roll the stone | Q |
| And give her highest place | P |
| In the human heart alone | Q |
Madison Julius Cawein
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