The Strangers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDB EFAFGF HIJKLI MANAOA PNQNRN| Dim berried is the mistletoe | A |
| With globes of sheenless grey | B |
| The holly mid ten thousand thorns | C |
| Smoulders its fires away | B |
| And in the manger Jesus sleeps | D |
| This Christmas Day | B |
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| Bull unto bull with hollow throat | E |
| Makes echo every hill | F |
| Cold sheep in pastures thick with snow | A |
| The air with bleating fill | F |
| While of his mother s heart this Babe | G |
| Takes His sweet will | F |
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| All flowers and butterflies lie hid | H |
| The blackbird and the thrush | I |
| Pipe but a little as they flit | J |
| Restless from bush to bush | K |
| Even to the robin Gabriel hath | L |
| Cried softly Hush | I |
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| Now night s astir with burning stars | M |
| In darkness of the snow | A |
| Burdened with frankincense and myrrh | N |
| And gold the Strangers go | A |
| Into a dusk where one dim lamp | O |
| Burns softly lo | A |
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| No snowdrop yet its small head nods | P |
| In winds of winter drear | N |
| No lark at casement in the sky | Q |
| Sings matins shrill and clear | N |
| Yet in this frozen mirk the Dawn | R |
| Breathes Spring is here | N |
Walter De La Mare
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