New Year's Morning Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEEEGEGHIHI AEAE AJAJKLKLAMAM| Only a night from old to new | A |
| Only a night and so much wrought | B |
| The Old Year's heart all weary grew | A |
| But said The New Year rest has brought | B |
| The Old Year's hopes its heart laid down | C |
| As in a grave but trusting said | D |
| The blossoms of the New Year's crown | C |
| Bloom from the ashes of the dead | D |
| The Old Year's heart was full of greed | E |
| With selfishness it longed and ached | F |
| And cried I have not half I need | E |
| My thirst is bitter and unslaked | E |
| But to the New Year's generous hand | E |
| All gifts in plenty shall return | G |
| True love it shall understand | E |
| By all y failures it shall learn | G |
| I have been reckless it shall be | H |
| Quiet and calm and pure of life | I |
| I was a slave it shall go free | H |
| And find sweet pace where I leave strife | I |
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| Only a night from old to new | A |
| Never a night such changes brought | E |
| The Old Year had its work to do | A |
| No New Year miracles are wrought | E |
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| Always a night from old to new | A |
| Night and the healing balm of sleep | J |
| Each morn is New Year's morn come true | A |
| Morn of a festival to keep | J |
| All nights are sacred nights to make | K |
| Confession and resolve and prayer | L |
| All days are sacred days to wake | K |
| New gladness in the sunny air | L |
| Only a night from old to new | A |
| Only a sleep from night to morn | M |
| The new is but the old coem true | A |
| Each sunrise sees a new year born | M |
Helen Hunt Jackson
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