Christmas Eve Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ACAC DE DE AFAF DGDG HIHI JKLK JMJM ANAN AOAO| Friend old friend in the Manse by the fireside sitting | A |
| Hour by hour while the grey ash drips from the log | B |
| You with a book on your knee your wife with her knitting | A |
| Silent both and between you silent the dog | B |
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| Silent here in the south sit I and leaning | A |
| One sits watching the fire with chin upon hand | C |
| Gazes deep in its heart but ah its meaning | A |
| Rather I read in the shadows and understand | C |
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| Dear kind she is and daily dearer kinder | D |
| Love shuts the door on the lamp and our two selves | E |
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| Not my stirring awakened the flame that behind her | D |
| Lit up a face in the leathern dusk of the shelves | E |
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| Veterans are my books with tarnished gilding | A |
| Yet there is one gives back to the winter grate | F |
| Gold of a sunset flooding a college building | A |
| Gold of an hour I waited as now I wait | F |
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| For a light step on the stair a girl's low laughter | D |
| Rustle of silk shy knuckles tapping the oak | G |
| Dinner and mirth upsetting my rooms and after | D |
| Music waltz upon waltz till the June day broke | G |
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| Where is her laughter now Old tarnished covers | H |
| You that reflect her with fresh young face unchanged | I |
| Tell that we met that we parted not as lovers | H |
| Time chance brought us together and these estranged | I |
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| Loyal were we to the mood of the moment granted | J |
| Bruised not its bloom but danced on the wave of its joy | K |
| Passion wisdom fell back like a fence enchanted | L |
| Ringing a floor for us both whole Heaven for the boy | K |
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| Where is she now Regretted not though departed | J |
| Blessings attend and follow her all her days | M |
| Look to your hound he dreams of the hares he started | J |
| Whines and awakes and stretches his limbs to the blaze | M |
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| Far old friend in the Manse by the green ash peeling | A |
| Flake by flake from the heat in the Yule log's core | N |
| Look past the woman you love On wall and ceiling | A |
| Climbs not a trellis of roses and ghosts of yore | N |
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| Thoughts thoughts Whistle them back like hounds returning | A |
| Mark how her needles pause at a sound upstairs | O |
| Time for bed and to leave the log's heart burning | A |
| Give ye good night but first thank God in your prayers | O |
Sir Arthur Quiller-couch
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