A New Year's Message Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BB CDEEAAA FFGGHHH BBIIJJJ KKIIHHH IIIIBBB LLIIMMM IIIIHHH| To Joseph Mazzini | A |
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| Send the stars light but send not love to me | B |
| SHELLEY | B |
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| Out of the dawning heavens that hear | C |
| Young wings and feet of the new year | D |
| Move through their twilight and shed round | E |
| Soft showers of sound | E |
| Soothing the season with sweet rain | A |
| If greeting come to make me fain | A |
| What is it I can send again | A |
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| I know not if the year shall send | F |
| Tidings to usward as a friend | F |
| And salutation and such things | G |
| Bear on his wings | G |
| As the soul turns and thirsts unto | H |
| With hungering eyes and lips that sue | H |
| For that sweet food which makes all new | H |
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| I know not if his light shall be | B |
| Darkness or else light verily | B |
| I know but that it will not part | I |
| Heart's faith from heart | I |
| Truth from the trust in truth nor hope | J |
| From sight of days unscaled that ope | J |
| Beyond one poor year's horoscope | J |
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| That faith in love which love's self gives | K |
| O master of my spirit lives | K |
| Having in presence unremoved | I |
| Thine head beloved | I |
| The shadow of thee the semitone | H |
| Of thy voice heard at heart and known | H |
| The light of thee not set nor flown | H |
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| Seas lands and hours can these divide | I |
| Love from love's service side from side | I |
| Though no sound pass nor breath be heard | I |
| Of one good word | I |
| To send back words of trust to thee | B |
| Were to send wings to love when he | B |
| With his own strong wings covers me | B |
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| Who shall teach singing to the spheres | L |
| Or motion to the flight of years | L |
| Let soul with soul keep hand in hand | I |
| And understand | I |
| As in one same abiding place | M |
| We keep one watch for one same face | M |
| To rise in some short sacred space | M |
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| And all space midway is but nought | I |
| To keep true heart from faithful thought | I |
| As under twilight stars we wait | I |
| By Time's shut gate | I |
| Till the slow soundless hinges turn | H |
| And through the depth of years that yearn | H |
| The face of the Republic burn | H |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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