Christmas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFF GGHHCC IIEEJK| With all the little children far and near | A |
| God wot to day we'll sing a song of cheer | A |
| To rosy lips and eyes that know not guile | B |
| We one and all will give back smile for smile | B |
| And for the sake of all the small and gay | C |
| We will be children also for to day | C |
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| Holly we'll hang with mistletoe above | D |
| God wot to day we'll sing a song of love | D |
| And we will trip on merry heel and toe | E |
| With all the fair who lightly come and go | E |
| We will deny the years that lie behind | F |
| And say that age is only in the mind | F |
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| And to the needy in whatever place | G |
| God wot to day we'll lend a hand of grace | G |
| For where is he who hath not need himself | H |
| Although he dine on silver or on delf | H |
| And we who pass and nod this Christmas Day | C |
| May never meet again on life's highway | C |
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| But when the lights are lit and day has flown | I |
| God wot there will be some who sit alone | I |
| Who sit and gaze into the embers' glow | E |
| And watch strange things that flitter to and fro | E |
| The ghosts of dreams and faces long unseen | J |
| Shadows of shadows things that once have been | K |
Virna Sheard
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