Watch-night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCB DDEEFFE GGHHCCH CCIICCI GGIIGJI DDIIKLI| Midnight musical and splendid | A |
| And the Old Year's life is ended | A |
| And the New born in the purple babe yet crowned among us dwells | B |
| While Creation's welcome swells | B |
| Starlight all the heavens pervading | C |
| And the whole world serenading | C |
| Him at birth with all its bells | B |
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| Round the cradle of the tender | D |
| Flows the music shines the splendor | D |
| It is early yet for counsel but bethink how Hermes gave | E |
| While the Myths were bright and brave | E |
| Thwarted Phoebus no small battle | F |
| Seeking back his lifted cattle | F |
| Hour old Hermes in his cave | E |
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| New Year if thy youth should blind us | G |
| Thy swift feet perchance may find us | G |
| Sleeping in the dark unguarded as the sun god's herds were found | H |
| Lest unready on his round | H |
| We be hurried World take warning | C |
| That already it is morning | C |
| And a giant is unbound | H |
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| Idle handed yet but willing | C |
| Let us ponder ere the filling | C |
| Of his empty eager fingers with our heedless hot behest | I |
| Be our failures frank confessed | I |
| 'Mid the gush of gladsome greeting | C |
| Requiem in our hearts repeating | C |
| For the years that died unblest | I |
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| How they came to us so precious | G |
| How abode with us so gracious | G |
| Blindly doing all our bidding stronger swifter than we thought | I |
| Like the sprites by magic brought | I |
| Shaping dream to action for us | G |
| Till we stood beset with sorrows | J |
| Wondering what ourselves had wrought | I |
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| Ere the tightening of the tether | D |
| Bind THIS YEAR and us together | D |
| Let us pause awhile and ponder Whither tend we side by side | I |
| He who gallops we who guide | I |
| Once we start like lost LENORE | K |
| Sung in B rger's ballad story | L |
| Fast as ODIN'S Hunt we ride | I |
Mary Hannay Foott
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