New Year's Chimes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ABAAB CBCCB DBDB EBEEB FBFG HBHHB IBIIJ DBDKB LBLLB CBCCB MBMMB ANAANWhat 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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