A Christmas Eve Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACACDEDEFGFG CHCHIJIJ AKAKLHLH IMIMCNCN AOAJPCPC IHIHDQDQ IHIHRCRC| GOOD fellows are laughing and drinking | A |
| To night no heart should grieve | B |
| But I am of old days thinking | A |
| Alone on Christmas Eve | B |
| Old memories fast are springing | A |
| To life again old rhymes | C |
| Once more in my brain are ringing | A |
| Ah God be with old times | C |
| There never was man so lonely | D |
| But ghosts walked him beside | E |
| For Death our spirits can only | D |
| By veils of sense divide | E |
| Numberless as the blades of | F |
| Grass in the fields that grow | G |
| Around us hover the shades of | F |
| The dead of long ago | G |
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| Friends living a word estranges | C |
| We smile and we say Adieu | H |
| But whatsoever else changes | C |
| Dead friends are faithful and true | H |
| An old time tune or a flower | I |
| The simplest thing held dear | J |
| In bygone days has the power | I |
| Once more to bring them near | J |
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| And whether it be through thinking | A |
| Of memories sad and sweet | K |
| Or hearing the cheery clinking | A |
| Of glasses across the street | K |
| I know not but this is certain | L |
| That here in the dusk I view | H |
| Like shadows seen through a curtain | L |
| The shades of the friends I knew | H |
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| Methinks that I hear their laughter | I |
| An echo of ghostly mirth | M |
| As if in the dim Hereafter | I |
| They jest as they did on earth | M |
| The fancy possibly droll is | C |
| And yet it relieves my mind | N |
| To think the enfranchised soul is | C |
| So humorously inclined | N |
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| But hark whose steps in the glancing | A |
| Moonbeams are these I hear | O |
| That sound as if timed to dancing | A |
| Music of gallant cheer | J |
| Half Galahad half Don Juan | P |
| His head full of wild romance | C |
| Twas thus that of old would Spruhan | P |
| Come lilting We met by chance | C |
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| Sure never a spirit lighter | I |
| At heart quaffed mountain dew | H |
| Never was goblin brighter | I |
| That Oberon s kingdom knew | H |
| And though at this season yearly | D |
| I miss the grasp of his hand | Q |
| I know that Spruhan has merely | D |
| Gone back to Fairyland | Q |
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| - | |
| The shades grow dimmer and dimmer | I |
| And now they fade from view | H |
| I see in the East the glimmer | I |
| Of dawn Old friends adieu | H |
| Sitting here lonely hearted | R |
| Writing these random rhymes | C |
| I drink to the days departed | R |
| Ah God be with old times | C |
Victor James Daley
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