Welcoming The New Year Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKFK ILJL AMDM NFOO PPDD QQRR STST EEUU VVWW QJQJ| We gathered a jovial party | A |
| Together on New Year's eve | B |
| To welcome the coming monarch | C |
| And to see the old one leave | B |
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| We chatted around the fireside | D |
| And wondered what time would bring | E |
| We had not a tear for the parting year | F |
| But longed for the coming king | E |
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| For youth reaches ever forward | G |
| And drops from its eager clasp | H |
| The realized gifts of fortune | I |
| Some phantom of hope to grasp | H |
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| Soon a maiden spoke of the custom | J |
| Now lapsed in this age of prose | K |
| To open the door for the New Year | F |
| The instant the Old Year goes | K |
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| Then leaving the door wide open | I |
| To stand in the silent street | L |
| And with a generous welcome | J |
| The entering guest to greet | L |
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| It suited our youthful fancy | A |
| And when the glad chimes began | M |
| From our cosy nook by the fireside | D |
| Down into the street we ran | M |
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| And far and near we all could hear | N |
| The great bells ringing out the year | F |
| And as they tolled the music rolled | O |
| Hoarse sounding over town and wold | O |
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| The year is dead Gros Bourdon said | P |
| The clanging echoes quivering fled | P |
| And far and wide on every side | D |
| The bells to one another cried | D |
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| The mountain woke and from its cloak | Q |
| Shook off the echoes stroke for stroke | Q |
| Then silence fell on hill and bell | R |
| And echoes ceased to sink and swell | R |
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| Standing beside the door wide open thrown | S |
| Her voice more musical than any bird's | T |
| And with a winning sweetness all its own | S |
| Our Queen thus winged her joyous thoughts with words | T |
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| Ring out bells ring Sing mountain sing | E |
| The king is dead long live the king | E |
| Now fast now slow now loud now low | U |
| Send out your chimes across the snow | U |
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| Old Year adieu welcome the New | V |
| The door stands open here for you | V |
| Come in come in the bells begin | W |
| To falter in their merry din | W |
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| Then as the great bells ceased to swing two broke | Q |
| A silver coin for luck in days to come | J |
| And though no tender words of love they spoke | Q |
| Yet hearts speak best when most the lips are dumb | J |
Arthur Weir
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