An Old Year's Address Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBCD EFCCFGG HIJJIK LFMMFCC NOCCOC PQPPRGG| 'I have twankled the strings of the twinkering rain | A |
| I have burnished the meteor's mail | B |
| I have bridled the wind | C |
| When he whinnied and whined | C |
| With a bunch of stars tied to his tail | B |
| But my sky rocket hopes hanging over the past | C |
| Must fuzzle and fazzle and fizzle at last ' | D |
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| I had waded far out in a drizzling dream | E |
| And my fancies had spattered my eyes | F |
| With a vision of dread | C |
| With a number ten head | C |
| And a form of diminutive size | F |
| That wavered and wagged in a singular way | G |
| As he wound himself up and proceeded to say | G |
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| 'I have trimmed all my corns with the blade of the moon | H |
| I have picked every tooth with a star | I |
| And I thrill to recall | J |
| That I went through it all | J |
| Like a tune through a tickled guitar | I |
| I have ripped up the rainbow and raveled the ends | K |
| When the sun and myself were particular friends ' | - |
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| And pausing again and producing a sponge | L |
| And wiping the tears from his eyes | F |
| He sank in a chair | M |
| With a technical air | M |
| That he struggled in vain to disguise | F |
| For a sigh that he breathed as I over him leant | C |
| Was haunted and hot with a peppermint scent | C |
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| 'Alas ' he continued in quavering tones | N |
| As a pang rippled over his face | O |
| 'The life was too fast | C |
| For the pleasure to last | C |
| In my very unfortunate case | O |
| And I'm going' he said as he turned to adjust | C |
| A fuse in his bosom 'I'm going to BUST ' | - |
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| I shrieked and awoke with the sullen che boom | P |
| Of a five pounder filling my ears | Q |
| And a roseate bloom | P |
| Of a light in the room | P |
| I saw through the mist of my tears | R |
| But my guest of the night never saw the display | G |
| He had fuzzled and fazzled and fizzled away | G |
James Whitcomb Riley
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