The Star-song: A Carol To The King Sung At Whitehall Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBB CCDE FFGH GII JJJJ KKK KLL| The Flourish of Music then followed the Song | A |
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| Tell us thou clear and heavenly tongue | B |
| Where is the Babe but lately sprung | B |
| Lies he the lily banks among | B |
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| Or say if this new Birth of ours | C |
| Sleeps laid within some ark of flowers | C |
| Spangled with dew light thou canst clear | D |
| All doubts and manifest the where | E |
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| Declare to us bright star if we shall seek | F |
| Him in the morning's blushing cheek | F |
| Or search the beds of spices through | G |
| To find him out | H |
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| Star No this ye need not do | G |
| But only come and see Him rest | I |
| A Princely Babe in's mother's breast | I |
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| Chor He's seen He's seen why then a round | J |
| Let's kiss the sweet and holy ground | J |
| And all rejoice that we have found | J |
| A King before conception crown'd | J |
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| Come then come then and let us bring | K |
| Unto our pretty Twelfth tide King | K |
| Each one his several offering | K |
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| Chor And when night comes we'll give Him wassailing | K |
| And that His treble honours may be seen | L |
| We'll choose Him King and make His mother Queen | L |
Robert Herrick
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