New Year Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEE FFGGHHIIJJ KKLL JJMMNNKK OOLLPPBCHHThe New Year dawns again upon the earth | A |
And all our land re echoes with its mirth | A |
From east to west from north to south we hear | B |
The sounds of merriment and goodly cheer | C |
With feast and revelry with dance and song | D |
The golden hours slip happily along | D |
And eyes are bright and hearts are blithe and gay | E |
And all seems well upon this New Year Day | E |
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Alas alas all is not well for oh | F |
White hands will plant the seeds of sin and woe | F |
Fair maids with smiles and glances half divine | G |
Will lift the muddy glass of poison wine | G |
To manly lips and plead of them to quaff | H |
And loud will grow the careless jest and laugh | H |
And firm resolves that gird up manly hearts | I |
To brave the devil and withstand his arts | I |
Will fail before these fiends in forms so sweet | J |
And they will drain the glass and think it meet | J |
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O shame too deep for tongue or pen to tell | K |
That woman opens wide the door of hell | K |
For man to enter woman who should be | L |
As true as truth and pure as purity | L |
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But when they pass the drunkard in the street | J |
They lift their robes lest they shall touch his feet | J |
And turn from him with scornful eye and lip | M |
Forgetting that perchance some maiden bade him sip | M |
Bade him with thrilling glance and tender tone | N |
Until the deadly habit mighty grown | N |
Had mastered all his manhood and he fell | K |
Lower and lower to the depths of hell | K |
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Go shout aloud fair woman's shame O wind | O |
Tell it to nature and to all mankind | O |
To hill and vale and every forest tree | L |
To bird and beast and to the mighty sea | L |
And let them all unite and sing her shame | P |
Until with streaming eyes and cheeks aflame | P |
She makes a vow and calls on God to hear | B |
That evermore her record shall be clear | C |
And she with all her strength will strive to save | H |
Instead of aiding to the drunkard's grave | H |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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