New Year's Eve Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ACAD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MAMA NONP QBRB ASTAS BKBK| It's cruel cold on the water front silent and dark and drear | A |
| Only the black tide weltering only the hissing snow | B |
| And I alone like a storm tossed wreck on this night of the glad New Year | A |
| Shuffling along in the icy wind ghastly and gaunt and slow | B |
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| They're playing a tune in McGuffy's saloon and it's cheery and bright in there | A |
| God but I'm weak since the bitter dawn and never a bite of food | C |
| I'll just go over and slip inside I mustn't give way to despair | A |
| Perhaps I can bum a little booze if the boys are feeling good | D |
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| They'll jeer at me and they'll sneer at me and they'll call me a whiskey soak | E |
| Have a drink Well thankee kindly sir I don't mind if I do | F |
| A drivelling dirty gin joint fiend the butt of the bar room joke | E |
| Sunk and sodden and hopeless Another Well here's to you | F |
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| McGuffy is showing a bunch of the boys how Bob Fitzsimmons hit | G |
| The barman is talking of Tammany Hall and why the ward boss got fired | H |
| I'll just sneak into a corner and they'll let me alone a bit | G |
| The room is reeling round and round O God but I'm tired I'm tired | H |
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| Roses she wore on her breast that night Oh but their scent was sweet | I |
| Alone we sat on the balcony and the fan palms arched above | J |
| The witching strain of a waltz by Strauss came up to our cool retreat | I |
| And I prisoned her little hand in mine and I whispered my plea of love | J |
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| Then sudden the laughter died on her lips and lowly she bent her head | K |
| And oh there came in the deep dark eyes a look that was heaven to see | L |
| And the moments went and I waited there and never a word was said | K |
| And she plucked from her bosom a rose of red and shyly gave it to me | L |
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| Then the music swelled to a crash of joy and the lights blazed up like day | M |
| And I held her fast to my throbbing heart and I kissed her bonny brow | A |
| She is mine she is mine for evermore the violins seemed to say | M |
| And the bells were ringing the New Year in O God I can hear them now | A |
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| Don't you remember that long last waltz with its sobbing sad refrain | N |
| Don't you remember that last good by and the dear eyes dim with tears | O |
| Don't you remember that golden dream with never a hint of pain | N |
| Of lives that would blend like an angel song in the bliss of the coming years | P |
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| Oh what have I lost What have I lost Ethel forgive forgive | Q |
| The red red rose is faded now and it's fifty years ago | B |
| 'Twere better to die a thousand deaths than live each day as I live | R |
| I have sinned I have sunk to the lowest depths but oh I have suffered so | B |
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| Hark Oh hark I can hear the bells Look I can see her there | A |
| Fair as a dream but it fades And now I can hear the dreadful hum | S |
| Of the crowded court See the Judge looks down | T |
| NOT GUILTY my Lord I swear | A |
| The bells I can hear the bells again Ethel I come I come | S |
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| Rouse up old man it's twelve o'clock You can't sleep here you know | B |
| Say ain't you got no sentiment Lift up your muddled head | K |
| Have a drink to the glad New Year a drop before you go | B |
| You darned old dirty hobo My God Here boys He's DEAD | K |
Robert Service
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