A Happy New Year Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDDE FFGHHG IIGJJG KKLGGL MMNOON PPQRRS GGHTTH UUVWWV XXXYZZZY| P M DEC | A |
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| Friend when the year is on the wing | B |
| 'Tis held a fair and comely thing | B |
| To turn reflective glances | C |
| Over the days' forbidden Scroll | D |
| See if we're better on the whole | D |
| And average our chances | E |
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| Yet 'tis an awful thing to drag | F |
| Each separate deed from out the bag | F |
| That up till now has hidden 't | G |
| And bring before the shuddering view | H |
| All that we swore we wouldn't do | H |
| Or should have done but didn't | G |
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| The broken code the baffled laws | I |
| Our little private faults and flaws | I |
| And every naughty habit | G |
| Come whistling through the Waste of Life | J |
| Until one longs to take a knife | J |
| Feel for his heart and stab it | G |
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| Unchanged exultant one and all | K |
| Rise up spontaneous to the call | K |
| And bring their stings behind them | L |
| But when the search is duly plied | G |
| For items on the credit side | G |
| One has a job to find them | L |
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| I know not why they change I know | M |
| None better how one's feelings grow | M |
| Distinctly kin to mutiny | N |
| To see one's assets limping in | O |
| All too preposterously thin | O |
| To stand a moment's scrutiny | N |
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| I know that shock must follow shock | P |
| Until the sole remaining Rock | P |
| That all one's hopes exist on | Q |
| Crumbles beneath the crushing force | R |
| Of Conscience kicking like a horse | R |
| And pounding like a piston | S |
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| Hardly a little year has past | G |
| Since you I take it swore to cast | G |
| Aside the bonds that girt you | H |
| And thought to stun the dazzled earth | T |
| A pillared Miracle of Worth | T |
| Raised on a plinth of Virtue | H |
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| One always does One wonders why | U |
| One knows that as the years go by | U |
| One finds the same old blunders | V |
| The same old acts the same old words | W |
| And as one trots them out in herds | W |
| Or one by one one wonders | V |
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| Another year a touch of grey | X |
| A little stiffness day by day | X |
| We feel the need of shall we say | X |
| Goggles to face the sun with | Y |
| A little loss of youthful bloom | Z |
| A little nearer to the Tomb | Z |
| Pardon this momentary gloom | Z |
| Bang go the bells That's done with | Y |
John Kendall (dum-dum)
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