Old Years And New Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DDEE FFGG HHII| Old years and new years all blended into one | A |
| The best of what there is to be the best of what is gone | B |
| Let's bury all the failures in the dim and dusty past | C |
| And keep the smiles of friendship and laughter to the last | C |
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| Old years and new years life's in the making still | D |
| We haven't come to glory yet but there's the hope we will | D |
| The dead old year was twelve months long but now from it we're free | E |
| And what's one year of good or bad to all the years to be | E |
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| Old years and new years we need them one and all | F |
| To reach the dome of character and build its sheltering wall | F |
| Past failures tried the souls of us but if their tests we stood | G |
| The sum of what we are to be may yet be counted good | G |
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| Old years and new years with all their pain and strife | H |
| Are but the bricks and steel and stone with which we fashion life | H |
| So put the sin and shame away and keep the fine and true | I |
| And on the glory of the past let's build the better new | I |
Edgar Albert Guest
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