Song Of The New Year Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEBFBGHGI JKLMNONOGHG PQQQNRNSGHG TUNUNNVNGHGI heard the bells at midnight | A |
Ring in the dawning year | B |
And above the clanging chorus | C |
Of the song I seemed to hear | D |
A choir of mystic voices | E |
Flinging echoes ringing clear | B |
From a band of angels winging | F |
Through the haunted atmosphere | B |
'Ring out the shame and sorrow | G |
And the misery and sin | H |
That the dawning of the morrow | G |
May in peace be ushered in ' | I |
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And I thought of all the trials | J |
The departed years had cost | K |
And the blooming hopes and pleasures | L |
That are withered now and lost | M |
And with joy I drank the music | N |
Stealing o'er the feeling there | O |
As the spirit song came pealing | N |
On the silence everywhere | O |
'Ring out the shame and sorrow | G |
And the misery and sin | H |
That the dawning of the morrow | G |
May in peace be ushered in ' | - |
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And I listened as a lover | P |
To an utterance that flows | Q |
In syllables like dewdrops | Q |
From the red lips of a rose | Q |
Till the anthem fainter growing | N |
Climbing higher chiming on | R |
Up the rounds of happy rhyming | N |
Slowly vanished in the dawn | S |
'Ring out the shame and sorrow | G |
And the misery and sin | H |
That the dawning of the morrow | G |
May in peace be ushered in ' | - |
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Then I raised my eyes to Heaven | T |
And with trembling lips I pled | U |
For a blessing for the living | N |
And a pardon for the dead | U |
And like a ghost of music | N |
Slowly whispered lowly sung | N |
Came the echo pure and holy | V |
In the happy angel tongue | N |
'Ring out the shame and sorrow | G |
And the misery and sin | H |
And the dawn of every morrow | G |
Will in peace be ushered in ' | - |
James Whitcomb Riley
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