Christmas. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBA DEFFDE GHIIGH JKLLBA DHMMHD| How did they keep his birthday then | A |
| The little fair Christ so long ago | B |
| O many there were to be housed and fed | C |
| And there was no place in the inn they said | C |
| So into the manger the Christ must go | B |
| To lodge with the cattle and not with men | A |
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| The ox and the ass they munched their hay | D |
| They munched and they slumbered wondering not | E |
| And out in the midnight cold and blue | F |
| The shepherds slept and the sheep slept too | F |
| Till the angels' song and the bright star ray | D |
| Guided the wise men to the spot | E |
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| But only the wise men knelt and praised | G |
| And only the shepherds came to see | H |
| And the rest of the world cared not at all | I |
| For the little Christ in the oxen's stall | I |
| And we are angry and amazed | G |
| That such a dull hard thing should be | H |
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| How do we keep his birthday now | J |
| We ring the bells and we raise the strain | K |
| We hang up garland everywhere | L |
| And bid the tapers twinkle fair | L |
| And feast and frolic and then we go | B |
| Back to the Mine old lives again | A |
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| Are we so better then than they | D |
| Who failed the new born Christ to see | H |
| To them a helpless babe to us | M |
| He shines a Saviour glorious | M |
| Our Lord our Friend our All yet we | H |
| Are half asleep this Christmas day | D |
Susan Coolidge (sarah Chauncey Woolsey)
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