The News-boy's Dream Of The New Year Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED AFAF GHGH AIAI JKJK GLLL MNMO LPLP AAAA APAP LQLQ ALAL| Under the bare brown rafters | A |
| In his garret bed he lay | B |
| And dreamed of the bright hereafters | A |
| And the merry morns of May | B |
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| The snow flakes slowly sifted | C |
| In through each cranny and seam | D |
| But only the sunshine drifted | E |
| Into the news boy's dream | D |
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| For he dreamed of the brave to morrows | A |
| His eager eyes should scan | F |
| When battling with wants and sorrows | A |
| He felt himself a Man | F |
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| He felt his heart grow bolder | G |
| For the struggle and the strife | H |
| When shoulder joined to shoulder | G |
| In the battle field of life | H |
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| And instead of the bare brown rafters | A |
| And the snowflakes sifting in | I |
| He saw in the glad hereafters | A |
| The home his hands should win | I |
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| The flowers that grew in its shadow | J |
| And the trees that drooped above | K |
| The low of the kine in the meadow | J |
| And the coo of the morning dove | K |
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| And dearer and more tender | G |
| He saw his mother there | L |
| As she knelt in the sunset splendour | L |
| To say the evening prayer | L |
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| His face the sun had burned it | M |
| And his hands were rough and hard | N |
| But home he had fairly earned it | M |
| And this was his reward | O |
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| The morning star's faint glimmer | L |
| Stole into the garret forlorn | P |
| And touched the face of the dreamer | L |
| With the light of a hope new born | P |
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| Oh ring harmonious voices | A |
| Of New Year's welcoming bells | A |
| For the very air rejoices | A |
| Through all its sounding cells | A |
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| I greet ye oh friends and neighbours | A |
| The smith and the artizan | P |
| I share in your honest labours | A |
| A Canadian working man | P |
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| To wield the axe or the hammer | L |
| To till the yielding soil | Q |
| Enroll me under your banner | L |
| Oh Brotherhood of Toil | Q |
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| Ring bells of the brave to morrows | A |
| And bring the time more near | L |
| Ring out the wants and the sorrows | A |
| Ring in the glad New Year | L |
Kate Seymour Maclean
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