The Pauper's Christmas Carol Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEFD GHGHFDEFD IJIKLMEFD NONPQDEFD RSRSPDEFD TFTFUDEFD VWVWXIEF| Full of drink and full of meat | A |
| On our SAVIOUR'S natal day | B |
| CHARITY'S perennial treat | A |
| Thus I heard a Pauper say | B |
| 'Ought not I to dance and sing | C |
| Thus supplied with famous cheer | D |
| Heigho | E |
| I hardly know | F |
| Christmas comes but once a year | D |
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| 'After labor's long turmoil | G |
| Sorry fare and frequent fast | H |
| Two and fifty weeks of toil | G |
| Pudding time is come at last | H |
| But are raisins high or low | F |
| Flour and suet cheap or dear | D |
| Heigho | E |
| I hardly know | F |
| Christmas comes but once a year | D |
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| 'Fed upon the coarsest fare | I |
| Three hundred days and sixty four | J |
| But for one on viands rare | I |
| Just as if I wasn't poor | K |
| Ought not I to bless my stars | L |
| Warden clerk and overseer | M |
| Heigho | E |
| I hardly know | F |
| Christmas comes but once a year | D |
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| 'Treated like a welcome guest | N |
| One of Nature's social chain | O |
| Seated tended on and press'd | N |
| But when shall I be press'd again | P |
| Twice to pudding thrice to beef | Q |
| A dozen times to ale and beer | D |
| Heigho | E |
| I hardly know | F |
| Christmas comes but once a year | D |
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| - | |
| 'Come to morrow how it will | R |
| Diet scant and usage rough | S |
| Hunger once has had its fill | R |
| Thirst for once has had enough | S |
| But shall I ever dine again | P |
| Or see another feast appear | D |
| Heigho | E |
| I only know | F |
| Christmas comes but once a year | D |
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| 'Frozen cares begin to melt | T |
| Hopes revive and spirits flow | F |
| Feeling as I have not felt | T |
| Since a dozen months ago | F |
| Glad enough to sing a song | U |
| To morrow shall I volunteer | D |
| Heigho | E |
| I hardly know | F |
| Christmas comes but once a year | D |
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| 'Bright and blessed is the time | V |
| Sorrows end and joys begin | W |
| While the bells with merry chime | V |
| Ring the Day of Plenty in | W |
| But the happy tide to hail | X |
| With a sigh or with or a tear | I |
| Heigho | E |
| I hardly know | F |
| Christmas comes but once a year ' | - |
Thomas Hood
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