New Year's Chimes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ABAAB CBCCB DBDB EBEEB FBFG HBHHB IBIIJ DBDKB LBLLB CBCCB MBMMB ANAAN| What is the song the stars sing | A |
| And a million songs are as song of one | B |
| This is the song the stars sing | A |
| Sweeter song's none | B |
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| One to set and many to sing | A |
| And a million songs are as song of one | B |
| One to stand and many to cling | A |
| The many things and the one Thing | A |
| The one that runs not the many that run | B |
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| The ever new weaveth the ever old | C |
| And a million songs are as song of one | B |
| Ever telling the never told | C |
| The silver saith and the said is gold | C |
| And done ever the never done | B |
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| The chase that's chased is the Lord o' the chase | D |
| And a million songs are as song of one | B |
| And the pursued cries on the race | D |
| And the hounds in leash are the hounds that run | B |
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| Hidden stars by the shown stars' sheen | E |
| And a million suns are but as one | B |
| Colours unseen by the colours seen | E |
| And sounds unheard heard sounds between | E |
| And a night is in the light of the sun | B |
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| An ambuscade of lights in night | F |
| And a million secrets are but as one | B |
| And anight is dark in the sun's light | F |
| And a world in the world man looks upon | G |
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| Hidden stars by the shown stars' wings | H |
| And a million cycles are but as one | B |
| And a world with unapparent strings | H |
| Knits the stimulant world of things | H |
| Behold and vision thereof is none | B |
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| The world above in the world below | I |
| And a million worlds are but as one | B |
| And the One in all as the sun's strength so | I |
| Strives in all strength glows in all glow | I |
| Of the earth that wits not and man thereon | J |
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| Braced in its own fourfold embrace | D |
| And a million strengths are as strength of one | B |
| And round it all God's arms of grace | D |
| The world so as the Vision says | K |
| Doth with great lightning tramples run | B |
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| And thunder bruiteth into thunder | L |
| And a million sounds are as sound of one | B |
| From stellate peak to peak is tossed a voice of wonder | L |
| And the height stoops down to the depths thereunder | L |
| And sun leans forth to his brother sun | B |
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| And the more ample years unfold | C |
| With a million songs as song of one | B |
| A little new of the ever old | C |
| A little told of the never told | C |
| Added act of the never done | B |
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| Loud the descant and low the theme | M |
| A million songs are as song of one | B |
| And the dream of the world is dream in dream | M |
| But the one Is is or nought could seem | M |
| And the song runs round to the song begun | B |
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| This is the song the stars sing | A |
| Ton d all in time | N |
| Tintinnabulous tuned to ring | A |
| A multitudinous single thing | A |
| Rung all in rhyme | N |
Francis Thompson
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