The Old Year And The New Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDDEE FFFFGGFF FHFHFFII JKJKLLMM ABABNNOO JPJPQQRR SMSMTUQQ FVFVFFWW| How swift they go | A |
| Life's many years | B |
| With their winds of woe | A |
| And their storms of tears | C |
| And their darkest of nights whose shadowy slopes | D |
| Are lit with the flashes of starriest hopes | D |
| And their sunshiny days in whose calm heavens loom | E |
| The clouds of the tempest the shadows of the gloom | E |
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| And ah we pray | F |
| With a grief so drear | F |
| That the years may stay | F |
| When their graves are near | F |
| Tho' the brows of To morrows be radiant and bright | G |
| With love and with beauty with life and with light | G |
| The dead hearts of Yesterdays cold on the bier | F |
| To the hearts that survive them are evermore dear | F |
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| For the hearts so true | F |
| To each Old Year cleaves | H |
| Tho' the hand of the New | F |
| Flowery garlands weaves | H |
| But the flowers of the future tho' fragrant and fair | F |
| With the past's withered leaflets may never compare | F |
| For dear is each dead leaf and dearer each thorn | I |
| In the wreaths which the brows of our past years have worn | I |
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| Yea men will cling | J |
| With a love to the last | K |
| And wildly fling | J |
| Their arms round their past | K |
| As the vine that clings to the oak that falls | L |
| As the ivy twines round the crumbled walls | L |
| For the dust of the past some hearts higher prize | M |
| Than the stars that flash out from the future's bright skies | M |
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| And why not so | A |
| The old Old Years | B |
| They knew and they know | A |
| All our hopes and fears | B |
| We walked by their side and we told them each grief | N |
| And they kissed off our tears while they whispered relief | N |
| And the stories of hearts that may not be revealed | O |
| In the hearts of the dead years are buried and sealed | O |
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| Let the New Year sing | J |
| At the Old Year's grave | P |
| Will the New Year bring | J |
| What the Old Year gave | P |
| Ah the Stranger Year trips over the snows | Q |
| And his brow is wreathed with many a rose | Q |
| But how many thorns do the roses conceal | R |
| Which the roses when withered shall so soon reveal | R |
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| Let the New Year smile | S |
| When the Old Year dies | M |
| In how short a while | S |
| Shall the smiles be sighs | M |
| Yea Stranger Year thou hast many a charm | T |
| And thy face is fair and thy greeting warm | U |
| But dearer than thou in his shroud of snows | Q |
| Is the furrowed face of the Year that goes | Q |
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| Yea bright New Year | F |
| O'er all the earth | V |
| With song and cheer | F |
| They will hail thy birth | V |
| They will trust thy words in a single hour | F |
| They will love thy face they will laud thy power | F |
| For the New has charms which the Old has not | W |
| And the Stranger's face makes the Friend's forgot | W |
Abram Joseph Ryan
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