New Year Resolve Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD CECE FGFG HIHI CJCJ| As the dead year is clasped by a dead December | A |
| So let your dead sins with your dead days lie | B |
| A new life is yours and a new hope Remember | A |
| We build our own ladders to climb to the sky | B |
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| Stand out in the sunlight of promise forgetting | C |
| Whatever the past held of sorrow and wrong | D |
| We waste half our strength in a useless regretting | C |
| We sit by old tombs in the dark too long | D |
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| Have you missed in your aim Well the mark is still shining | C |
| Did you faint in the race Well take breath for the next | E |
| Did the clouds drive you back But see yonder their lining | C |
| Were you tempted and fell Let it serve for a text | E |
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| As each year hurries by let it join that procession | F |
| Of skeleton shapes that march down to the past | G |
| While you take your place in the line of progression | F |
| With your eyes to the heavens your face to the blast | G |
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| I tell you the future can hold no terrors | H |
| For any sad soul while the stars revolve | I |
| If he will stand firm on the grave of his errors | H |
| And instead of regretting resolve resolve | I |
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| It is never too late to begin rebuilding | C |
| Though all into ruins your life seems hurled | J |
| For see how the light of the New Year is gilding | C |
| The wan worn face of the bruised old world | J |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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