Ghosts Of The Old Year Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCCB DDDAEEEA FFFAAAAA GGGAHHHA| The snow has ceased its fluttering flight | A |
| The wind sunk to a whisper light | A |
| An ominous stillness fills the night | A |
| A pause a hush | B |
| At last a sound that breaks the spell | C |
| Loud clanging mouthings of a bell | C |
| That through the silence peal and swell | C |
| And roll and rush | B |
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| What does this brazen tongue declare | D |
| That falling on the midnight air | D |
| Brings to my heart a sense of care | D |
| Akin to fright | A |
| 'Tis telling that the year is dead | E |
| The New Year come the Old Year fled | E |
| Another leaf before me spread | E |
| On which to write | A |
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| It tells the deeds that were not done | F |
| It tells of races never run | F |
| Of victories that were not won | F |
| Barriers unleaped | A |
| It tells of many a squandered day | A |
| Of slighted gems and treasured clay | A |
| Of precious stores not laid away | A |
| Of fields unreaped | A |
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| And so the years go swiftly by | G |
| Each coming brings ambitions high | G |
| And each departing leaves a sigh | G |
| Linked to the past | A |
| Large resolutions little deeds | H |
| Thus filled with aims unreached life speeds | H |
| Until the blotted record reads | H |
| Failure at last | A |
James Weldon Johnson
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