The Twenty-second Of December Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD ECEC FGHG| Wild was the day the wintry sea | A |
| Moaned sadly on New England's strand | B |
| When first the thoughtful and the free | A |
| Our fathers trod the desert land | B |
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| They little thought how pure a light | C |
| With years should gather round that day | D |
| How love should keep their memories bright | C |
| How wide a realm their sons should sway | D |
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| Green are their bays but greener still | E |
| Shall round their spreading fame be wreathed | C |
| And regions now untrod shall thrill | E |
| With reverence when their names are breathed | C |
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| Till where the sun with softer fires | F |
| Looks on the vast Pacific's sleep | G |
| The children of the pilgrim sires | H |
| This hallowed day like us shall keep | G |
William Cullen Bryant
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