A Christmas Carol, Sung To The King In The Presence At White-hall Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAAABB CCC CDE FFFG HHIII JJJ KLMM NNAA| What sweeter music can we bring | A |
| Than a carol for to sing | A |
| The birth of this our heavenly King | A |
| Awake the voice Awake the string | A |
| Heart ear and eye and everything | A |
| Awake the while the active finger | B |
| Runs division with the singer | B |
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| Dark and dull night fly hence away | C |
| And give the honor to this day | C |
| That sees December turned to May | C |
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| If we may ask the reason say | C |
| The why and wherefore all things here | D |
| Seem like the springtime of the year | E |
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| Why does the chilling Winter's morn | F |
| Smile like a field beset with corn | F |
| Or smell like to a mead new shorn | F |
| Thus on the sudden | G |
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| Come and see | H |
| The cause why things thus fragrant be | H |
| 'Tis He is born whose quickening birth | I |
| Gives life and luster public mirth | I |
| To heaven and the under earth | I |
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| We see Him come and know Him ours | J |
| Who with His sunshine and His showers | J |
| Turns all the patient ground to flowers | J |
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| The darling of the world is come | K |
| And fit it is we find a room | L |
| To welcome Him The nobler part | M |
| Of all the house here is the heart | M |
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| Which we will give Him and bequeath | N |
| This holly and this ivy wreath | N |
| To do Him honor who's our King | A |
| And Lord of all this reveling | A |
Robert Herrick
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