New Year's Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC ADAD EFEF GHGC IJIJ FKFK LMLM EHEH NOGP QRQR BHHH JSJS BTBT| Hail joyous morn Hail happy day | A |
| That ushers in another year | B |
| Fraught with what sorrow none can say | A |
| Nor with what pain to mortals here | C |
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| Another year has roll'd away | A |
| With all its sorrows joys and fears | D |
| But still the light of hope's glad ray | A |
| Yet beams within our heart and cheers | D |
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| One year one span of time has pass'd | E |
| So swift to some to others slow | F |
| But it has gone and we should cast | E |
| Along with it remorse and woe | F |
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| Of things we've done or only thought | G |
| 'Tis useless now the bitter tear | H |
| Of actions unavailing wrought | G |
| Let them repose upon their bier | C |
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| We should indeed e'en yet atone | I |
| For what our reason says we can | J |
| But never let remorse's groan | I |
| Degrade us from our state as man | J |
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| Let us discharge the debts we owe | F |
| But still some debts will be unpaid | K |
| But we if we forgive also | F |
| Should ne'er despairing feel afraid | K |
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| The future is before us still | L |
| And to that future we should gaze | M |
| With hope renew'd with firmer will | L |
| To tread life's weary tangl'd maze | M |
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| We ne'er should let the gloomy past | E |
| Bow down our heads in dark despair | H |
| But we should keep those lessons fast | E |
| Which e'en our follies taught us there | H |
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| Experience so dearly bought | N |
| By folly or by ignorance | O |
| Should in our inmost system wrought | G |
| Our daily life improve advance | P |
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| Then let us press towards the goal | Q |
| The common goal of all mankind | R |
| Go on while seasons onward roll | Q |
| Nor cast one fainting look behind | R |
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| And as we journey through this year | B |
| Let us in watchfulness beware | H |
| Of all that brings remorseful tear | H |
| Or future terror and despair | H |
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| Let us with thoughtful vision scan | J |
| Each step we take each act we do | S |
| That we may meet our brother man | J |
| With no unrighteous thing to rue | S |
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| A happy happy bright New Year | B |
| I wish to all the sons of men | T |
| With happy hearts and merry cheer | B |
| Till it has roll'd its round again | T |
Thomas Frederick Young
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