New-york In 1826 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B BCDCBEFE GHGHIBBB DJDJKLBL MNMNOPQP BRGROSTS BNMNFBFB BUBUFVBV GWGWBDBD GHGHMXGX BYBYZA2BA2 BB2BB2DBTB GGGGBDBB TC2TC2KD2GD2 E2GE2GE2E2BE2 E2JE2JTGDGAddress of the carrier of the New York Mirror on the first day of the year | A |
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Air Songs of Shepherds and Rustical Roundelays | B |
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Two years have elapsed since the verse of S W See Notes | B |
Met your bright eyes like a fanciful gem | C |
With that kind of stanza the muse will now trouble you | D |
She often frolicks with one G P M | C |
As New Year approaches she whispers of coaches | B |
And lockets and broaches See Notes without any end | E |
Of sweet rosy pleasure of joy without measure | F |
And plenty of leisure to share with a friend | E |
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'Tis useless to speak of the griefs of society | G |
They overtake us in passing along | H |
And public misfortunes in all their variety | G |
Need not be told in a holyday song | H |
The troubles of Wall street I'm sure that you all meet | I |
And they're not at all sweet but look at their pranks | B |
Usurious cravings and discounts and shavings | B |
With maniac ravings and Lombardy banks See Notes | B |
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'Tis useless to speak of our dealers in cotton too | D |
Profits and losses but burden the lay | J |
The failure of merchants should now be forgotten too | D |
Nor sadden the prospects of this festive day | J |
Though Fortune has cheated the hope near completed | K |
And cruelly treated the world mercantile | L |
The poet's distresses when Fortune oppresses | B |
Are greater he guesses but still he can smile | L |
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'Tis useless to speak of the gas lights See Notes so beautiful | M |
Shedding its beams through the mist of the night | N |
Eagles and tigers and elephants dutiful | M |
Dazzle the vision with columns of light | N |
The lamb and the lion ask editor Tryon | O |
His word you'll rely on are seen near the Park | P |
From which such lights flow out as wind can not blow out | Q |
Yet often they go out and all's in the dark | P |
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'Tis useless to speak of the seats on the Battery See Notes | B |
They're too expensive to give to the town | R |
Then our aldermen think it such flattery | G |
If the public have leave to sit down | R |
Our fortune to harden they show Castle Garden | O |
Kind muses your pardon but rhyme it I must | S |
Where soldiers were drilling you now must be willing | T |
To pay them a shilling so down with the dust | S |
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'Tis useless to speak of our writers poetical See Notes | B |
Of Halleck and Bryant and Woodworth to write | N |
There are others whose trades are political | M |
Snowden and Townsend and Walker and Dwight | N |
There's Lang the detector and Coleman the hector | F |
And Noah the protector and judge of the Jews | B |
And King the accuser and Stone the abuser | F |
And Grim the confuser of morals and news | B |
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'Tis useless to speak of the many civilities | B |
Shown to Fayette See Notes in this country of late | U |
Or even to mention the splendid abilities | B |
Clinton possesses for ruling the state | U |
The union of water and Erie's bright daughter | F |
Since Neptune has caught her they'll sever no more | V |
And Greece and her troubles the rhyme always doubles | B |
Have vanished like bubbles that burst on the shore | V |
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'Tis useless to speak of Broadway and the Bowery | G |
Both are improving and growing so fast | W |
Who would have thought that old Stuyvesant's dowery | G |
Would hold in its precincts a play house See Notes at last | W |
Well wonder ne'er ceases but daily increases | B |
And pulling to pieces the town to renew | D |
So often engages the thoughts of our sages | B |
That when the fit rages what will they not do | D |
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'Tis useless to speak of the want of propriety | G |
In forming our city so crooked and long | H |
Our ancestors bless them were fond of variety | G |
'Tis naughty to say that they ever were wrong | H |
Tho' strangers may grumble and thro' the streets and stumble | M |
Take care they don't tumble through crevices small | X |
For trap doors we've plenty on sidewalk and entry | G |
And no one stands sentry to see they don't fall | X |
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'Tis useless to speak of amusements so various | B |
Of opera singers See Notes that few understand | Y |
Of Kean's See Notes reputation so sadly precarious | B |
When he arrived in this prosperous land | Y |
The public will hear him and hark how they cheer him | Z |
Though editors jeer him we all must believe | A2 |
He pockets the dollars of sages and scholars | B |
Of course then it follows he laughs in his sleeve | A2 |
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'Tis useless to speak but just put on your spectacles | B |
Read about Chatham and Peale's See Notes splendid show | B2 |
There's Scudder and Dunlap they both have receptacles | B |
Which I assure you are now all the go | B2 |
'Tis here thought polite too should giants delight you | D |
And they should invite you to look at their shapes | B |
To visit their dwelling where Indians are yelling | T |
And handbills are telling of wonderful apes | B |
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'Tis useless to speak of the din that so heavily | G |
Fell on our senses as midnight drew near | G |
Trumpets and bugles and conch shells so cleverly | G |
Sounded the welkin with happy New Year | G |
With jewsharps and timbrels and musical thimbles | B |
Tin platters for cymbals and frying pans too | D |
Dutch ovens and brasses and jingles and glasses | B |
With reeds of all classes together they blew See Notes | B |
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Then since it is useless to speak about anything | T |
All have examined and laid on the shelf | C2 |
Perhaps it is proper to say now and then a thing | T |
Touching the Mirror See Notes the day and myself | C2 |
Our work's not devoted as you may have noted | K |
To articles quoted from books out of print | D2 |
Instead of the latter profusely we scatter | G |
Original matter that's fresh from the mint | D2 |
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Patrons I greet you with feelings of gratitude | E2 |
Ladies to please you is ever my care | G |
Nor wish I on earth for a sweeter beatitude | E2 |
If I but bask in the smiles of the fair | G |
Such bliss to a poet is precious you know it | E2 |
And while you bestow it the heart feels content | E2 |
Your bounty has made us and still you will aid us | B |
But some have not paid us we hope they'll repent | E2 |
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For holyday pleasure why these are the times for it | E2 |
Pardon me then for so trifling a lay | J |
This stanza shall end it if I can find rhymes for it | E2 |
May you dear patrons be happy to day | J |
Tho' life is so fleeting and pleasure so cheating | T |
That we are oft meeting with accidents here | G |
Should Fate seek to dish you oh then may the issue | D |
Be what I now wish you A HAPPY NEW YEAR | G |
George Pope Morris
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