A Psalm For New Year-s Eve Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDD EFEFEGG HIHIHI JKJKJLL MIMIMFF ININIOO| A FRIEND stands at the door | A |
| In either tight closed hand | B |
| Hiding rich gifts three hundred and three score | A |
| Waiting to strew them daily o'er the land | B |
| Even as seed the sower | C |
| Each drops he treads it in and passes by | D |
| It cannot be made fruitful till it die | D |
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| O good New Year we clasp | E |
| This warm shut hand of thine | F |
| Loosing forever with half sigh half gasp | E |
| That which from ours falls like dead fingers' twine | F |
| Ay whether fierce its grasp | E |
| Has been or gentle having been we know | G |
| That it was blessed let the Old Year go | G |
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| O New Year teach us faith | H |
| The road of life is hard | I |
| When our feet bleed and scourging winds us scathe | H |
| Point thou to Him whose visage was more marred | I |
| Than any man's who saith | H |
| 'Make straight paths for your feet' and to the opprest | I |
| 'Come ye to Me and I will give you rest ' | - |
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| Yet hang some lamp like hope | J |
| Above this unknown way | K |
| Kind year to give our spirits freer scope | J |
| And our hands strength to work while it is day | K |
| But if that way must slope | J |
| Tombward O bring before our fading eyes | L |
| The lamp of life the Hope that never dies | L |
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| Comfort our souls with love | M |
| Love of all human kind | I |
| Love special close in which like sheltered dove | M |
| Each weary heart its own safe nest may find | I |
| And love that turns above | M |
| Adoringly contented to resign | F |
| All loves if need be for the Love Divine | F |
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| Friend come thou like a friend | I |
| And whether bright thy face | N |
| Or dim with clouds we cannot comprehend | I |
| We'll hold out patient hands each in his place | N |
| And trust thee to the end | I |
| Knowing thou leadest onwards to those spheres | O |
| Where there are neither days nor months nor years | O |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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