An Ode Of The Birth Of Our Saviour Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCCBBC BBBBDBBD BBEEDEED EECCEFCE| In numbers and but these few | A |
| I sing thy birth oh JESU | B |
| Thou pretty Baby born here | C |
| With sup'rabundant scorn here | C |
| Who for thy princely port here | C |
| Hadst for thy place | B |
| Of birth a base | B |
| Out stable for thy court here | C |
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| Instead of neat enclosures | B |
| Of interwoven osiers | B |
| Instead of fragrant posies | B |
| Of daffadils and roses | B |
| Thy cradle kingly stranger | D |
| As gospel tells | B |
| Was nothing else | B |
| But here a homely manger | D |
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| But we with silks not cruels | B |
| With sundry precious jewels | B |
| And lily work will dress thee | E |
| And as we dispossess thee | E |
| Of clo ts we'll make a chamber | D |
| Sweet babe for thee | E |
| Of ivory | E |
| And plaster'd round with amber | D |
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| The Jews they did disdain thee | E |
| But we will entertain thee | E |
| With glories to await here | C |
| Upon thy princely state here | C |
| And more for love than pity | E |
| From year to year | F |
| We'll make thee here | C |
| A free born of our city | E |
Robert Herrick
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