New Year Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IGIG JKJK LMNM OPQP HRHR BPBP STST UVWV DGDG XGXG YFFF XGXG ZXZX XA2XA2| Each year cometh with all his days | A |
| Some are shadowed and some are bright | B |
| He beckons us on until he stays | A |
| Kneeling with us 'neath Christmas night | B |
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| Kneeling under the stars that gem | C |
| The holy sky o'er the humble place | D |
| When the world's sweet Child of Bethlehem | C |
| Rested on Mary full of grace | D |
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| Not only the Bethlehem in the East | E |
| But altar Bethlehem everywhere | F |
| When the Gloria of the first great feast | E |
| Rings forth its gladness on the air | F |
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| Each year seemeth loath to go | G |
| And leave the joys of Christmas day | H |
| In lands of sun and in lands of snow | G |
| The year still longs awhile to stay | H |
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| A little while 'tis hard to part | I |
| From this Christ blessed here below | G |
| Old year and in thy aged heart | I |
| I hear thee sing so sweet and low | G |
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| A song like this but sweeter far | J |
| And yet as if with a human tone | K |
| Under the blessed Christmas star | J |
| And thou descendest from thy throne | K |
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| A few more days and I am gone | L |
| The hours move swift and sure along | M |
| Yet still I fain would linger on | N |
| In hearing of the Christmas song | M |
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| I bow to Him who rules all years | O |
| Thrice blessed is His high behest | P |
| Nor will He blame me if with tears | Q |
| I pass to my eternal rest | P |
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| Ah me to altars every day | H |
| I brought the sun and the holy Mass | R |
| The people came by my light to pray | H |
| While countless priests did onward pass | R |
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| The words of the Holy Thursday night | B |
| To one another from east to west | P |
| And the holy Host on the altar white | B |
| Would take its little half hour's rest | P |
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| And every minute of every hour | S |
| The Mass bell rang with its sound so sweet | T |
| While from shrine to shrine with tireless power | S |
| And heaven's love walked the nailed feet | T |
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| I brought the hours for Angelus bells | U |
| And from a thousand temple towers | V |
| They wound their sweet and blessed spell | W |
| Around the hearts of all the hours | V |
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| Every day has a day of grace | D |
| For those who fain would make them so | G |
| I saw o'er the world in every place | D |
| The wings of guardian angels glow | G |
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| Men could you hear the song I sing | X |
| But no alas it cannot be so | G |
| My heir that comes would only bring | X |
| Blessings to bless you here below | G |
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| Seven days passed the gray old year | Y |
| Calls to his throne the coming heir | F |
| Falls from his eyes the last sad tear | F |
| And lo there is gladness everywhere | F |
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| Singing I hear the whole world sing | X |
| Afar anear aloud alow | G |
| What to us will the New Year bring | X |
| Ah would that each of us might know | G |
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| Is it not truth as old as true | Z |
| List ye singers the while ye sing | X |
| Each year bringeth to each of you | Z |
| What each of you will have him bring | X |
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| The year that cometh is a king | X |
| With better gifts than the old year gave | A2 |
| If you place on his fingers the holy ring | X |
| Of prayer the king becomes your slave | A2 |
Abram Joseph Ryan
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