New Year's Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA BCB DED DFD GHG| Now you are mine to night at last I say it | A |
| You're a dove I have bought for sacrifice | B |
| And to night I slay it | A |
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| Here in my arms my naked sacrifice | B |
| Death do you hear in my arms I am bringing | C |
| My offering bought at great price | B |
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| She's a silvery dove worth more than all I've got | D |
| Now I offer her up to the ancient inexorable God | E |
| Who knows me not | D |
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| Look she's a wonderful dove without blemish or spot | D |
| I sacrifice all in her my last of the world | F |
| Pride strength all the lot | D |
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| All all on the altar And death swooping down | G |
| Like a falcon 'Tis God has taken the victim | H |
| I have won my renown | G |
D. H. Lawrence (david Herbert Richards)
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