A New Year's Eve Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCBCCDCDDEDEEFEFFGF GGHGHHIHIIDIDDJDJJDJ| Christina Rossetti died December | A |
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| The stars are strong in the deeps of the lustrous night | B |
| Cold and splendid as death if his dawn be bright | B |
| Cold as the cast off garb that is cold as clay | C |
| Splendid and strong as a spirit intense as light | B |
| A soul more sweet than the morning of new born May | C |
| Has passed with the year that has passed from the world away | C |
| A song more sweet than the morning's first born song | D |
| Again will hymn not among us a new year's day | C |
| Not here not here shall the carol of joy grown strong | D |
| Ring rapture now and uplift us a spell struck throng | D |
| From dream to vision of life that the soul may see | E |
| By death's grace only if death do its trust no wrong | D |
| Scarce yet the days and the starry nights are three | E |
| Since here among us a spirit abode as we | E |
| Girt round with life that is fettered in bonds of time | F |
| And clasped with darkness about as is earth with sea | E |
| And now more high than the vision of souls may climb | F |
| The soul whose song was as music of stars that chime | F |
| Clothed round with life as of dawn and the mounting sun | G |
| Sings and we know not here of the song sublime | F |
| No word is ours of it now that the songs are done | G |
| Whence here we drank of delight as in freedom won | G |
| In deep deliverance given from the bonds we bore | H |
| There is none to sing as she sang upon earth not one | G |
| We heard awhile and for us who shall hear no more | H |
| The sound as of waves of light on a starry shore | H |
| Awhile bade brighten and yearn as a father's face | I |
| The face of death divine as in days of yore | H |
| The grey gloom quickened and quivered the sunless place | I |
| Thrilled and the silence deeper than time or space | I |
| Seemed now not all everlasting Hope grew strong | D |
| And love took comfort given of the sweet song's grace | I |
| Love that finds not on earth where it finds but wrong | D |
| Love that bears not the bondage of years in throng | D |
| Shone to show for her higher than the years that mar | J |
| The life she looked and longed for as love must long | D |
| Who knows We know not Afar if the dead be far | J |
| Alive if the dead be alive as the soul's works are | J |
| The soul whose breath was among us a heavenward song | D |
| Sings loves and shines as it shines for us here a star | J |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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