Singing Children Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE AFGFH HA AIJIK KL AMCMNON| IN the streets of Bethlehem sang the children | A |
| So merry and so shrill | B |
| 'He shall have sweet cedars in his garden | A |
| And a house on Hermon Hill | B |
| He shall have the king's daughter for his fellow | C |
| A king's crown to bind upon his head ' | D |
| And with bracken buds and straw brown and yellow | C |
| Mary made His bed | E |
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| In the streets of Nazareth sang the children | A |
| So clearly and so sweet | F |
| 'He shall lead us to the spoiling of the nations | G |
| He shall bruise them with his feet | F |
| His standards shall outface the stars for number | H |
| Red as field lilies when the rains are done ' | - |
| And Mary heard them singing in her slumber | H |
| And woke to kiss her Son | A |
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| In the streets of Jerusalem the children | A |
| Sang passing to their play | I |
| 'The king's daughter waits in her apparel | J |
| All glorious as day | I |
| We charge you O ye watchmen of your pity | K |
| Reveal us our belov d call his name ' | - |
| And the shadow of a cross beyond the city | K |
| Fell softly o'er their game | L |
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| In the ways of all the world sing the children | A |
| 'We know Him we have named Him He is ours | M |
| Like leaves we have fluttered to His shadow | C |
| He has gathered us as flowers | M |
| And when the bud falls all too soon for blossom | N |
| And when the play has wearied of its charm | O |
| He bears the tired lambs within His bosom | N |
| And the young lambs in His arm ' | - |
Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall
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