New Year's Eve Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBABCDBDE FGHFFHHFIHHJIJ| Once on the year's last eve in my mind's might | A |
| Sitting in dreams not sad nor quite elysian | B |
| Balancing all 'twixt wonder and derision | B |
| Methought my body and all this world took flight | A |
| And vanished from me as a dream outright | A |
| Leaning out thus in sudden strange decision | B |
| I saw as it were in the flashing of a vision | B |
| Far down between the tall towers of the night | A |
| Borne by great winds in awful unison | B |
| The teeming masses of mankind sweep by | C |
| Even as a glittering river with deep sound | D |
| And innumerable banners rolling on | B |
| Over the starry border glooms that bound | D |
| The last gray space in dim eternity | E |
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| And all that strange unearthly multitude | F |
| Seemed twisted in vast seething companies | G |
| That evermore with hoarse and terrible cries | H |
| And desperate encounter at mad feud | F |
| Plunged onward each in its implacable mood | F |
| Borne down over the trampled blazonries | H |
| Of other faiths and other phantasies | H |
| Each falling furiously and each pursued | F |
| So sped they on with tumult vast and grim | I |
| But ever meseemed beyond them I could see | H |
| White haloed groups that sought perpetually | H |
| The figure of one crowned and sacrificed | J |
| And faint far forward floating tall and dim | I |
| The banner of our Lord and Master Christ | J |
Archibald Lampman
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