New Year Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEE FFGGHHIIJJ KKLL JJMMNNKK OOLLPPBCHH

The New Year dawns again upon the earthA
And all our land re echoes with its mirthA
From east to west from north to south we hearB
The sounds of merriment and goodly cheerC
With feast and revelry with dance and songD
The golden hours slip happily alongD
And eyes are bright and hearts are blithe and gayE
And all seems well upon this New Year DayE
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Alas alas all is not well for ohF
White hands will plant the seeds of sin and woeF
Fair maids with smiles and glances half divineG
Will lift the muddy glass of poison wineG
To manly lips and plead of them to quaffH
And loud will grow the careless jest and laughH
And firm resolves that gird up manly heartsI
To brave the devil and withstand his artsI
Will fail before these fiends in forms so sweetJ
And they will drain the glass and think it meetJ
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O shame too deep for tongue or pen to tellK
That woman opens wide the door of hellK
For man to enter woman who should beL
As true as truth and pure as purityL
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But when they pass the drunkard in the streetJ
They lift their robes lest they shall touch his feetJ
And turn from him with scornful eye and lipM
Forgetting that perchance some maiden bade him sipM
Bade him with thrilling glance and tender toneN
Until the deadly habit mighty grownN
Had mastered all his manhood and he fellK
Lower and lower to the depths of hellK
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Go shout aloud fair woman's shame O windO
Tell it to nature and to all mankindO
To hill and vale and every forest treeL
To bird and beast and to the mighty seaL
And let them all unite and sing her shameP
Until with streaming eyes and cheeks aflameP
She makes a vow and calls on God to hearB
That evermore her record shall be clearC
And she with all her strength will strive to saveH
Instead of aiding to the drunkard's graveH

Ella Wheeler Wilcox



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