The Puritans' Christmas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MNON APQA RSTS UVFW XMVM YZA2Z B2BC2B| Their only thought religion | A |
| What Christmas joys had they | B |
| The stern staunch Pilgrim Fathers who | C |
| Knew naught of holiday | B |
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| A log church in the clearing | D |
| 'Mid solitudes of snow | E |
| The wild beast and the wilderness | F |
| And lurking Indian foe | E |
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| No time had they for pleasure | G |
| Whom God had put to school | H |
| A sermon was their Christmas cheer | I |
| A psalm their only Yule | H |
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| They deemed it joy sufficient | J |
| Nor would Christ take it ill | K |
| That service to Himself and God | L |
| Employed their spirits still | K |
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| And so through faith and prayer | M |
| Their powers were renewed | N |
| And souls made strong to shape a World | O |
| And tame a solitude | N |
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| A type of revolution | A |
| Wrought from an iron plan | P |
| In the largest mold of liberty | Q |
| God cast the Puritan | A |
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| A better land they founded | R |
| That Freedom had for bride | S |
| The shackles of old despotism | T |
| Struck from her limbs and side | S |
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| With faith within to guide them | U |
| And courage to perform | V |
| A nation from a wilderness | F |
| They hewed with their strong arm | W |
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| For liberty to worship | X |
| And right to do and dare | M |
| They faced the savage and the storm | V |
| With voices raised in prayer | M |
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| For God it was who summoned | Y |
| And God it was who led | Z |
| And God would not forsake the love | A2 |
| That must be clothed and fed | Z |
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| Great need had they of courage | B2 |
| Great need of faith had they | B |
| And lacking these how otherwise | C2 |
| For us had been this day | B |
Madison Julius Cawein
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