A New Year Letter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CCD ECFEEE GGEEHH EECC IIJKJK AELAMENO PEQERSSQ TRTR ATo 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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