A New Year Letter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A B CCD ECFEEE GGEEHH EECC IIJKJK AELAMENO PEQERSSQ TRTR A

To Two Friends married in the New YearA
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TO MR AND MRS WELCHB
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Another year to its last dayC
Like a lost sovereign runawayC
Tips down the gloomy grid of timeD
In vain to holloa 'Stop it hey '-
A cab horse that has taken frightE
Be you a policeman stop you mayC
But not a sovereign mad with gleeF
That scampers to the grid perdieE
And not a year that's taken flightE
To both 'tis just a grim good nightE
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But no the imagery say youG
Is wondrous witty but not trueG
For the old year that last night wentE
Has not been so much lost as spentE
You gave it in exchange to DeathH
For just twelve months of happy breathH
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It was a ticket to admitE
Two happy people close to sitE
A 'Season' ticket one might sayC
At Time's eternal passion playC
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O magic overture of SpringI
O Summer like an Eastern KingI
O Autumn splendid widowed QueenJ
O Winter alabaster tombK
Where lie the regal twain sereneJ
Gone to their yearly doomK
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But all you bought with that spent yearA
Ah friends it was as nothing was itE
Nothing at all to hold compareL
With what you buy with this New YearA
A home ah me you could not buyM
Another half so precious toyE
With all the other years to comeN
As that grown up doll's house a homeO
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O wine upon its threshold stoneP
And horse shoes on the lintel of itE
And happy hearts to keep it warmQ
And God Himself to love itE
Dear little nest built snug on boughR
Within the World Tree's mighty armsS
I would I knew a spell that charmsS
Eternal safety from the stormQ
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To give you always stars aboveT
And always roses on the boughR
But then the Tree's own root is LoveT
Love love all love I vowR
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New YearA

Richard Le Gallienne



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