Christmas Carol Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GGEHHE EEEEEE BBEIJE KKDLMD| Ring out ye bells | A |
| All Nature swells | A |
| With gladness at the wondrous story | B |
| The world was lorn | C |
| But Christ is born | C |
| To change our sadness into glory | B |
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| Sing earthlings sing | D |
| To night a King | D |
| Hath come from heaven's high throne to bless us | E |
| The outstretched hand | F |
| O'er all the land | F |
| Is raised in pity to caress us | E |
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| Come at his call | G |
| Be joyful all | G |
| Away with mourning and with sadness | E |
| The heavenly choir | H |
| With holy fire | H |
| Their voices raise in songs of gladness | E |
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| The darkness breaks | E |
| And Dawn awakes | E |
| Her cheeks suffused with youthful blushes | E |
| The rocks and stones | E |
| In holy tones | E |
| Are singing sweeter than the thrushes | E |
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| Then why should we | B |
| In silence be | B |
| When Nature lends her voice to praises | E |
| When heaven and earth | I |
| Proclaim the truth | J |
| Of Him for whom that lone star blazes | E |
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| No be not still | K |
| But with a will | K |
| Strike all your harps and set them ringing | D |
| On hill and heath | L |
| Let every breath | M |
| Throw all its power into singing | D |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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