A Christmas Carol Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDD A EFEFGG A HIHIJJ KLKLMM M NONOAA A PLPLLL A LQLQBB A LKLKJJ| I | A |
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| The shepherds went their hasty way | B |
| And found the lowly stable shed | C |
| Where the Virgin Mother lay | B |
| And now they checked their eager tread | C |
| For to the Babe that at her bosom clung | D |
| A Mother's song the Virgin Mother sung | D |
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| II | A |
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| They told her how a glorious light | E |
| Streaming from a heavenly throng | F |
| Around them shone suspending night | E |
| While sweeter than a mother's song | F |
| Blest Angels heralded the Savior's birth | G |
| Glory to God on high and Peace on Earth | G |
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| III | A |
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| She listened to the tale divine | H |
| And closer still the Babe she pressed | I |
| And while she cried the Babe is mine | H |
| The milk rushed faster to her breast | I |
| Joy rose within her like a summer's morn | J |
| Peace Peace on Earth the Prince of Peace is born | J |
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| IV | - |
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| Thou Mother of the Prince of Peace | K |
| Poor simple and of low estate | L |
| That strife should vanish battle cease | K |
| O why should this thy soul elate | L |
| Sweet Music's loudest note the Poet's story | M |
| Didst thou ne'er love to hear of fame and glory | M |
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| V | M |
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| And is not War a youthful king | N |
| A stately Hero clad in mail | O |
| Beneath his footsteps laurels spring | N |
| Him Earth's majestic monarchs hail | O |
| Their friends their playmate and his bold bright eye | A |
| Compels the maiden's love confessing sigh | A |
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| VI | A |
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| Tell this in some more courtly scene | P |
| To maids and youths in robes of state | L |
| I am a woman poor and mean | P |
| And wherefore is my soul elate | L |
| War is a ruffian all with guilt defiled | L |
| That from the aged father's tears his child | L |
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| VII | A |
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| A murderous fiend by fiends adored | L |
| He kills the sire and starves the son | Q |
| The husband kills and from her board | L |
| Steals all his widow's toil had won | Q |
| Plunders God's world of beauty rends away | B |
| All safety from the night all comfort from the day | B |
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| VIII | A |
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| Then wisely is my soul elate | L |
| That strife should vanish battle cease | K |
| I'm poor and of low estate | L |
| The Mother of the Prince of Peace | K |
| Joy rises in me like a summer's morn | J |
| Peace Peace on Earth The Prince of Peace is born | J |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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