A New Year Thought Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD BBCCCCEE CCFFDDCC CCGGCCHH| Brother who on some near morrow | A |
| Makes a pledge conceived in sorrow | A |
| Makes a New Year resolution | B |
| Seeking plenary ablution | B |
| Makes a vow to cease from sinning | C |
| With this New Year's beginning | C |
| Here's a thought to give you gladness | D |
| Here's relief from old year sadness | D |
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| Brother you and I are men | B |
| We have sinned and yet again | B |
| Shall we sin An old year's dying | C |
| Still shall find us ever trying | C |
| Yet here is a thought worth knowing | C |
| While our wild oats we are sowing | C |
| Sowing where we may not reap | E |
| Here's a thought to have and keep | E |
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| Why waste effort in our sinning | C |
| For no goodlier grace we're winning | C |
| Let our failings serve an end | F |
| That shall stand us as a friend | F |
| But when we make resolutions | D |
| Bets of New Year institutions | D |
| Let us heed the later breaking | C |
| In an effort of their making | C |
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| Thus philosophy is giving | C |
| Some excuse for our loose living | C |
| For while these resolves we make | G |
| Now to hold and now to break | G |
| We are in our misbehaving | C |
| Helping greatly with the paving | C |
| Built of potsherd scrap and shred | H |
| That we'll some day have to tread | H |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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