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 Year | A |
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| TO MR AND MRS WELCH | B |
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| Another year to its last day | C |
| Like a lost sovereign runaway | C |
| Tips down the gloomy grid of time | D |
| In vain to holloa 'Stop it hey ' | - |
| A cab horse that has taken fright | E |
| Be you a policeman stop you may | C |
| But not a sovereign mad with glee | F |
| That scampers to the grid perdie | E |
| And not a year that's taken flight | E |
| To both 'tis just a grim good night | E |
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| But no the imagery say you | G |
| Is wondrous witty but not true | G |
| For the old year that last night went | E |
| Has not been so much lost as spent | E |
| You gave it in exchange to Death | H |
| For just twelve months of happy breath | H |
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| It was a ticket to admit | E |
| Two happy people close to sit | E |
| A 'Season' ticket one might say | C |
| At Time's eternal passion play | C |
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| O magic overture of Spring | I |
| O Summer like an Eastern King | I |
| O Autumn splendid widowed Queen | J |
| O Winter alabaster tomb | K |
| Where lie the regal twain serene | J |
| Gone to their yearly doom | K |
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| But all you bought with that spent year | A |
| Ah friends it was as nothing was it | E |
| Nothing at all to hold compare | L |
| With what you buy with this New Year | A |
| A home ah me you could not buy | M |
| Another half so precious toy | E |
| With all the other years to come | N |
| As that grown up doll's house a home | O |
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| O wine upon its threshold stone | P |
| And horse shoes on the lintel of it | E |
| And happy hearts to keep it warm | Q |
| And God Himself to love it | E |
| Dear little nest built snug on bough | R |
| Within the World Tree's mighty arms | S |
| I would I knew a spell that charms | S |
| Eternal safety from the storm | Q |
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| To give you always stars above | T |
| And always roses on the bough | R |
| But then the Tree's own root is Love | T |
| Love love all love I vow | R |
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| New Year | A |
Richard Le Gallienne
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