A Year Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBADAD AEEFGEEHAH IJECCEJAIA EKCFFCKAEA| She has been just a year in Heaven | A |
| Unmarked by white moon or gold sun | A |
| By stroke of clock or clang of bell | B |
| Or shadow lengthening on the way | C |
| In the full noon and perfect day | C |
| In Safety's very citadel | B |
| The happy hours have sped have run | A |
| And rapt in peace all pain forgot | D |
| She whom we love her white soul shriven | A |
| Smiles at the thought and wonders not | D |
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| We have been just a year alone | A |
| A year whose calendar is sighs | E |
| And dull perpetual wishfulness | E |
| And smiles each covert for a tear | F |
| And wandering thoughts half there half here | G |
| And weariful attempts to guess | E |
| The secret of the hiding skies | E |
| The soft inexorable blue | H |
| With gleaming hints of glory sown | A |
| And Heaven behind just shining through | H |
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| So sweet so sad so swift so slow | I |
| So full of eager growth and light | J |
| So full of pain which blindly grows | E |
| So full of thoughts which either way | C |
| Have passed and crossed and touched each day | C |
| To us a thorn to her a rose | E |
| The year so black the year so white | J |
| Like rivers twain their course have run | A |
| The earthly stream we trace and know | I |
| But who shall paint the heavenly one | A |
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| A year We gather up our powers | E |
| Our lamps we consecrate and trim | K |
| Open all windows to the day | C |
| And welcome every heavenly air | F |
| We will press forward and will bear | F |
| Having this word to cheer the way | C |
| She storm tossed once is safe with Him | K |
| Healed comforted content forgiven | A |
| And while we count these heavy hours | E |
| Has been a year a year in Heaven | A |
Susan Coolidge (sarah Chauncey Woolsey)
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