The Oxen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH| Christmas Eve and twelve of the clock | A |
| Now they are all on their knees | B |
| An elder said as we sat in a flock | A |
| By the embers in hearthside ease | B |
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| We pictured the meek mild creatures where | C |
| They dwelt in their strawy pen | D |
| Nor did it occur to one of us there | C |
| To doubt they were kneeling then | D |
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| So fair a fancy few would weave | E |
| In these years Yet I feel | F |
| If someone said on Christmas Eve | E |
| Come see the oxen kneel | F |
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| In the lonely barton by yonder coomb | G |
| Our childhood used to know | H |
| I should go with him in the gloom | G |
| Hoping it might be so | H |
Thomas Hardy
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