The Year's End Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAACDEDDEFGGGGHIJJI KGKKGLGLLGMNOPQRSRRS TITTIDLDDLUQUUQIVIIV WDWWDDGDDGXBXXC| THE voices of the wind and wave | A |
| They sigh the Old Year's requiem | B |
| The dead are calling from the grave | A |
| Good friends a little space I crave | A |
| To turn aside and think of them | C |
| They were as even you and I | D |
| When you and I were young as they | E |
| And yet they knew the way to die | D |
| Come think with me and tell me why | D |
| It should be thus with hearts so gay | E |
| Ah blessed be the gracious God | F |
| Who moulding us from clay and dew | G |
| From morning dew and clay untrod | G |
| So breathed Himself into the sod | G |
| That we at best grow Godlike too | G |
| For treading pleasure underneath | H |
| These glory souls our country's flower | I |
| Arose responsive to that breath | J |
| And looked into the face of Death | J |
| And did not tremble at his power | I |
| Should it not make us sure and tough | K |
| As tested steel and unafraid | G |
| To feel though Fate ride robber rough | K |
| That we are fashioned of the stuff | K |
| Whereof these heroes too were made | G |
| Though they are dead and o'er them bends | L |
| A people's soul in mourning mood | G |
| Proud Honour at their grave attends | L |
| Henceforth we are a nation friends | L |
| By right of sacrificial blood | G |
| The care free days of youth are gone | M |
| What once we were no more we are | N |
| And dead are all the dreams that shone | O |
| Ere we were bruised and hammered on | P |
| The ringing anvils of red war | Q |
| The Spirit of Immortal Times | R |
| With lights that dazzle and entice | S |
| Is vitalizing all earth's climes | R |
| Once more in golden tones it chimes | R |
| The anthem of High Sacrifice | S |
| And yet though Fame be very fair | T |
| And great the yearning and desire | I |
| Of hero hearts to do and dare | T |
| Behold there stands an empty chair | T |
| Beside a cold and ashen fire | I |
| Because as even you and I | D |
| They loved and were beloved my friends | L |
| Not all the glory stars on high | D |
| The splendid things for which men die | D |
| Can for their passing make amends | L |
| There is a house that waits in vain | U |
| To give them entrance at its door | Q |
| When frost's afoot or chilly rain | U |
| There is a track across the plain | U |
| That they alas shall ride no more | Q |
| A whip a saddle and a spur | I |
| Ah love lit rides The moon above | V |
| Sweet scents around soft winds astir | I |
| God give him rest And what of her | I |
| Why ask Is love not always love | V |
| Dear eyes that pain has made divine | W |
| Sad eyes that burn with tears unshed | D |
| Within whose depths are griefs that pine | W |
| And pilgrim thoughts that seek the shrine | W |
| The grave of their beloved dead | D |
| Dear eyes dear hearts dear folk tear blind | D |
| Who greet each morn with grief anew | G |
| Pale cheeks grown cold and foreheads lined | D |
| Since God is good and Heaven is kind | D |
| There shall be recompense for you | G |
| The Old Year dies and o'er the waves | X |
| Wind borne there comes a requiem | B |
| Deep chanted by a sea that laves | X |
| The shores they loved Oh may their graves | X |
| Give goodly rest and peace to them | C |
Roderic Quinn
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