For The New Year Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGCGC HIHIJCJC HKHKGAGA ALAHJCJC| FLUSHED with a crimson sunrise beauty | A |
| The fair new year its promise gave | B |
| Such dreams we had of love of duty | A |
| Of heights to scale of foes to brave | B |
| Oh how hope's fire our future lighted | C |
| How much to do how much to know | D |
| Yet on its brink we shrank affrighted | C |
| A year ago | D |
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| And now the year is done its pleasure | E |
| So brief so bright its hours of pain | F |
| Some moments' memories we treasure | E |
| Some recollections loathe in vain | F |
| Oh for a brain where could not waken | G |
| Remembrances of purpose crossed | C |
| Of trusts abandoned aims forsaken | G |
| And chances lost | C |
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| The changing seasons thrust upon us | H |
| Another year fair faced and new | I |
| What evil have the old years done us | H |
| That this in its turn will not do | I |
| This too will die and leave us grieving | J |
| For all the ills its arms enfold | C |
| For faiths betrayed for friends deceiving | J |
| And love grown cold | C |
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| We have been fooled The hopes that fooled us | H |
| We know them now have been a lie | K |
| The star that led the light that ruled us | H |
| We scorn them and we pass them by | K |
| Shut out hope's light past is the season | G |
| When rose red glow seemed good to see | A |
| Look by the cold white light of reason | G |
| These things shall be | A |
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| A long dim vista blank and dreary | A |
| The same hard failure small success | L |
| The same tired heart the brain still weary | A |
| Of its intense self consciousness | H |
| The old despair the old repining | J |
| And through the future's deepest night | C |
| Down life's untrodden ways still shining | J |
| The old hope's light | C |
Edith Nesbit
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