New Year's Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL MNMNOPOP AQAQABAB| When with clanging and with ringing | A |
| Comes the year's initial day | B |
| I can feel the rhythmic swinging | A |
| Of the world upon its way | B |
| And though Right still wears a fetter | C |
| And though Justice still is blind | D |
| Time's beyond is always better | C |
| Than the paths he leaves behind | D |
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| In our eons of existence | E |
| As we circle through the night | F |
| We annihilate the distance | E |
| 'Twixt the darkness and the light | F |
| From beginnings crude and lowly | G |
| Round and round our souls have trod | H |
| Through the circles winding slowly | G |
| Up to knowledge and to God | H |
| - | |
| With each century departed | I |
| Some old evil found a tomb | J |
| Some old truth was newly started | I |
| In propitious soil to bloom | J |
| With each epoch some condition | K |
| That has handicapped the race | L |
| Worn out creed or superstition | K |
| Unto knowledge yields its place | L |
| - | |
| Though in folly and in blindness | M |
| And in sorrow still we grope | N |
| Yet in man's increasing kindness | M |
| Lies the world's stupendous hope | N |
| For our darkest hour of errors | O |
| Is as radiant as the dawn | P |
| Set beside the awful terrors | O |
| Of the ages that have gone | P |
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| And above the sad world's sobbing | A |
| And the strife of clan with clan | Q |
| I can hear the mighty throbbing | A |
| Of the heart of God in man | Q |
| And a voice chants through the chiming | A |
| Of the bells and seems to say | B |
| We are climbing we are climbing | A |
| As we circle on our way | B |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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