On New Year's Eve Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CBCB DEFE BBBB GHGH| we make midnight a maquette of the year | A |
| frostlight glinting off snow to solemnize | B |
| the vows we offer to ourselves in near | A |
| silence the competition shimmerwise | B |
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| of champagne and chandeliers to attract | C |
| laughter and cheers the glow from the fireplace | B |
| reflecting the burning intra red pact | C |
| between beloveds we cosset the space | B |
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| of a fey hour anxious gods molding our | D |
| hoped for adams with this temporal clay | E |
| each of us edacious for shining or | F |
| rash enough to think sacrifice will stay | E |
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| this fugacious time while stillness suspends | B |
| vitality in balance as passions | B |
| struggle with passions for sway the mind wends | B |
| towards what's to come a callithump of fashions | B |
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| ersatz smiles crowded days a bloodless cut | G |
| that severs soul from bone a long aching | H |
| quiet in which we will hear nothing but | G |
| the clean crack of our promises breaking | H |
Evie Shockley
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