The Old Year Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFGFHIHI AJAJAIAI| The Old Year's gone away | A |
| To nothingness and night | B |
| We cannot find him all the day | A |
| Nor hear him in the night | B |
| He left no footstep mark or place | C |
| In either shade or sun | D |
| The last year he'd a neighbour's face | C |
| In this he's known by none | D |
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| All nothing everywhere | E |
| Mists we on mornings see | F |
| Have more of substance when they're here | G |
| And more of form than he | F |
| He was a friend by every fire | H |
| In every cot and hall | I |
| A guest to every heart's desire | H |
| And now he's nought at all | I |
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| Old papers thrown away | A |
| Old garments cast aside | J |
| The talk of yesterday | A |
| All things identified | J |
| But times once torn away | A |
| No voices can recall | I |
| The eve of New Year's Day | A |
| Left the Old Year lost to all | I |
John Clare
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