A New Year's Morning Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC DADAAEAF GHGHHIHI FAEAAJAJ AKALKMKM NANAAOAO| Thanksgiving and the voice of melody | A |
| This new year's morning call me from my sleep | B |
| A new sweet song is in my heart for Thee | A |
| Thou faithful tender Shepherd of the sheep | B |
| Thou knowest where to find and how to keep | B |
| The feeble feet that tremble where they stray | C |
| O'er the dark mountains through the whelming deep | B |
| Thy everlasting mercy makes its way | C |
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| The past is not so dark as once it seemed | D |
| For there Thy footprints now distinct I see | A |
| And seed in weakness sown from death redeemed | D |
| Is springing up and bearing fruit in Thee | A |
| Not all that hath been Lord henceforth shall be | A |
| A low sweet cheering strain is in mine ear | E |
| Thanksgiving and the voice of melody | A |
| Are leading in from Heaven a blest new year | F |
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| With voice subdued my listening spirit sings | G |
| As backward on the trodden path I gaze | H |
| While ministering angels fold their wings | G |
| To fill with lowly thoughts my song of praise | H |
| The shadow of the past on future days | H |
| Will make them clear to my instructed sight | I |
| For the heart's knowledge of Thy sacred ways | H |
| Even in its deepest darkest shades is light | I |
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| I am not stronger yet I do not fear | F |
| The present pain the conflict yet to be | A |
| Experience is a kind voice in mine ear | E |
| And all my failures bid me lean on Thee | A |
| No future suffering can seem strange to me | A |
| While in the hidden part I feel and know | J |
| The wisdom of a child at rest and free | A |
| In the tried love whose judgment keeps him low | J |
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| Thanksgiving and the voice of melody | A |
| O to my tranquil heart how sweet the strain | K |
| Father of mercies it arose in Thee | A |
| And to Thy bosom it returns again | L |
| There let my grateful song my soul remain | K |
| Calm in the risen Savior's tender care | M |
| And welcome any trial any pain | K |
| That serves to keep thy faithful children there | M |
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| Thoughts of Thy love and O how great the sum | N |
| Enduring grief obtaining bliss for me | A |
| The world life death things present things to come | N |
| All swell a new year's opening melody | A |
| Past present future all things worship Thee | A |
| And I through all with trembling joy behold | O |
| While mountains fall and treacherous visions flee | A |
| Thy wandering sheep returning to the fold | O |
Anna Laetitia Waring
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