A New Year's Gift,sent To Sir Simeon Steward Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFGHIIJJAAKL AAAAMMNNOOPPQQRRAASS AATUVVAAAA| No news of navies burnt at seas | A |
| No noise of late spawn'd tittyries | A |
| No closet plot or open vent | B |
| That frights men with a Parliament | C |
| No new device or late found trick | D |
| To read by th' stars the kingdom's sick | D |
| No gin to catch the State or wring | E |
| The free born nostril of the King | E |
| We send to you but here a jolly | F |
| Verse crown'd with ivy and with holly | F |
| That tells of winter's tales and mirth | G |
| That milk maids make about the hearth | H |
| Of Christmas sports the wassail bowl | I |
| That toss'd up after Fox i' th' hole | I |
| Of Blind man buff and of the care | J |
| That young men have to shoe the Mare | J |
| Of twelf tide cakes of pease and beans | A |
| Wherewith ye make those merry scenes | A |
| Whenas ye chuse your king and queen | K |
| And cry out 'Hey for our town green ' | L |
| Of ash heaps in the which ye use | A |
| Husbands and wives by streaks to chuse | A |
| Of crackling laurel which fore sounds | A |
| A plenteous harvest to your grounds | A |
| Of these and such like things for shift | M |
| We send instead of New year's gift | M |
| Read then and when your faces shine | N |
| With buxom meat and cap'ring wine | N |
| Remember us in cups full crown'd | O |
| And let our city health go round | O |
| Quite through the young maids and the men | P |
| To the ninth number if not ten | P |
| Until the fired chestnuts leap | Q |
| For joy to see the fruits ye reap | Q |
| From the plump chalice and the cup | R |
| That tempts till it be tossed up | R |
| Then as ye sit about your embers | A |
| Call not to mind those fled Decembers | A |
| But think on these that are t' appear | S |
| As daughters to the instant year | S |
| Sit crown'd with rose buds and carouse | A |
| Till LIBER PATER twirls the house | A |
| About your ears and lay upon | T |
| The year your cares that's fled and gone | U |
| And let the russet swains the plough | V |
| And harrow hang up resting now | V |
| And to the bag pipe all address | A |
| Till sleep takes place of weariness | A |
| And thus throughout with Christmas plays | A |
| Frolic the full twelve holy days | A |
Robert Herrick
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