Christmas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFGHHCCIIJJ KKLLMMNNOOPQRRSSIIBB| Christmas has come let's eat and drink | A |
| This is no time to sit and think | A |
| Farewell to study books and pen | B |
| And welcome to all kinds of men | B |
| Let all men now get rid of care | C |
| And what one has let others share | C |
| Then 'tis the same no matter which | D |
| Of us is poor or which is rich | D |
| Let each man have enough this day | E |
| Since those that can are glad to pay | E |
| There's nothing now too rich or good | F |
| For poor men not the King's own food | G |
| Now like a singing bird my feet | H |
| Touch earth and I must drink and eat | H |
| Welcome to all men I'll not care | C |
| What any of my fellows wear | C |
| We'll not let cloth divide our souls | I |
| They'll swim stark naked in the bowls | I |
| Welcome poor beggar I'll not see | J |
| That hand of yours dislodge a flea | J |
| While you sit at my side and beg | K |
| Or right foot scratching your left leg | K |
| Farewell restraint we will not now | L |
| Measure the ale our brains allow | L |
| But drink as much as we can hold | M |
| We'll count no change when we spend gold | M |
| This is no time to save but spend | N |
| To give for nothing not to lend | N |
| Let foes make friends let them forget | O |
| The mischief making dead that fret | O |
| The living with complaint like this | P |
| He wronged us once hate him and his | Q |
| Christmas has come let every man | R |
| Eat drink be merry all he can | R |
| Ale's my best mark but if port wine | S |
| Or whisky's yours let it be mine | S |
| No matter what lies in the bowls | I |
| We'll make it rich with our own souls | I |
| Farewell to study books and pen | B |
| And welcome to all kinds of men | B |
William Henry Davies
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