The New Year Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHCHAH JHKHLMNM LOPOQHRH| Come you with dangers to fright us or hazards | A |
| to try out our souls | B |
| Then may you find us undaunted determined to | C |
| get to our goals | B |
| Now white are the pages you bring us to fill | D |
| with the tales of our deeds | E |
| And I pray we shall square at the finish the work | F |
| of our lives with our creeds | E |
| - | |
| Oh child of a year do you wonder what here | G |
| upon earth you shall find | H |
| America shows you a people united in purpose | I |
| and mind | H |
| Whatever you bring us of danger whatever you | C |
| hold to affright | H |
| I pray that we never shall lower our standards | A |
| of truth and of right | H |
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| You find us a people united full pledged to the | J |
| work of the world | H |
| To banish the despot and tyrant our banner in | K |
| battle's unfurled | H |
| And here to a world that is bleeding and weary | L |
| and heartsick you come | M |
| Whatever you've brought us of duty we'll | N |
| answer the call of your drum | M |
| - | |
| We may weep in our grief and our sorrows we | L |
| may bend 'neath the might of the blow | O |
| But never our courage shall falter and never | P |
| we'll run from the foe | O |
| We know not how troubled our pathways shall | Q |
| be nor how sorely beset | H |
| But I pray we shall cling to our honor as men | R |
| and never our purpose forget | H |
Edgar Albert Guest
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