The Passing Of The Year Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFBGBH IJKLMFNF OPOPPQPQ RDRDSISI PKPKTBTB UPBPPUPU| My glass is filled my pipe is lit | A |
| My den is all a cosy glow | B |
| And snug before the fire I sit | A |
| And wait to feel the old year go | B |
| I dedicate to solemn thought | C |
| Amid my too unthinking days | D |
| This sober moment sadly fraught | C |
| With much of blame with little praise | D |
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| Old Year upon the Stage of Time | E |
| You stand to bow your last adieu | F |
| A moment and the prompter's chime | E |
| Will ring the curtain down on you | F |
| Your mien is sad your step is slow | B |
| You falter as a Sage in pain | G |
| Yet turn Old Year before you go | B |
| And face your audience again | H |
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| That sphinx like face remote austere | I |
| Let us all read whate'er the cost | J |
| O Maiden why that bitter tear | K |
| Is it for dear one you have lost | L |
| Is it for fond illusion gone | M |
| For trusted lover proved untrue | F |
| O sweet girl face so sad so wan | N |
| What hath the Old Year meant to you | F |
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| And you O neighbour on my right | O |
| So sleek so prosperously clad | P |
| What see you in that aged wight | O |
| That makes your smile so gay and glad | P |
| What opportunity unmissed | P |
| What golden gain what pride of place | Q |
| What splendid hope O Optimist | P |
| What read you in that withered face | Q |
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| And You deep shrinking in the gloom | R |
| What find you in that filmy gaze | D |
| What menace of a tragic doom | R |
| What dark condemning yesterdays | D |
| What urge to crime what evil done | S |
| What cold confronting shape of fear | I |
| O haggard haunted hidden One | S |
| What see you in the dying year | I |
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| And so from face to face I flit | P |
| The countless eyes that stare and stare | K |
| Some are with approbation lit | P |
| And some are shadowed with despair | K |
| Some show a smile and some a frown | T |
| Some joy and hope some pain and woe | B |
| Enough Oh ring the curtain down | T |
| Old weary year it's time to go | B |
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| My pipe is out my glass is dry | U |
| My fire is almost ashes too | P |
| But once again before you go | B |
| And I prepare to meet the New | P |
| Old Year a parting word that's true | P |
| For we've been comrades you and I | U |
| I thank God for each day of you | P |
| There bless you now Old Year good bye | U |
Robert Service
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