A New Year Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIJ KGLG MDND OPBP QJRH STUV WBXB| Behold a new white world | A |
| The falling snow | B |
| Has cloaked the last old year | C |
| And bid him go | B |
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| To morrow cries the oak tree | D |
| To his heart | E |
| My seal d buds shall fling | F |
| Their leaves apart | E |
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| To morrow pipes the robin | G |
| And again | H |
| How sweet the nest that long | I |
| Was full of rain | J |
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| To morrow bleats the sheep | K |
| And one by one | G |
| My little lambs shall frolic | L |
| 'Neath the sun | G |
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| For us too let some fair | M |
| To morrow be | D |
| O Thou who weavest threads | N |
| Of Destiny | D |
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| Thou wast a babe on that | O |
| Far Christmas Day | P |
| Let us as children follow | B |
| In Thy way | P |
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| So that our hearts grown cold | Q |
| 'Neath time and pain | J |
| With young sweet faith may blossom | R |
| Green again | H |
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| That empty promises | S |
| Of passing years | T |
| Spring into life and not | U |
| Repenting tears | V |
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| So that our deeds upon | W |
| The earth may go | B |
| As innocent as lambs | X |
| And pure as snow | B |
Dora Sigerson Shorter
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