A New Year's Eve In War Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFF A BCDEF A BCDEF BCDEF BCDEG HCDIF HCDEJF| I | A |
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| Phantasmal fears | B |
| And the flap of the flame | C |
| And the throb of the clock | D |
| And a loosened slate | E |
| And the blind night's drone | F |
| Which tiredly the spectral pines intone | F |
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| II | A |
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| And the blood in my ears | B |
| Strumming always the same | C |
| And the gable cock | D |
| With its fitful grate | E |
| And myself alone | F |
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| III | A |
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| The twelfth hour nears | B |
| Hand hid as in shame | C |
| I undo the lock | D |
| And listen and wait | E |
| For the Young Unknown | F |
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| IV | - |
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| In the dark there careers | B |
| As if Death astride came | C |
| To numb all with his knock | D |
| A horse at mad rate | E |
| Over rut and stone | F |
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| V | - |
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| No figure appears | B |
| No call of my name | C |
| No sound but Tic toc | D |
| Without check Past the gate | E |
| It clatters is gone | G |
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| VI | - |
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| What rider it bears | H |
| There is none to proclaim | C |
| And the Old Year has struck | D |
| And scarce animate | I |
| The New makes moan | F |
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| VII | - |
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| Maybe that More Tears | H |
| More Famine and Flame | C |
| More Severance and Shock | D |
| Is the order from Fate | E |
| That the Rider speeds on | J |
| To pale Europe and tiredly the pines intone | F |
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Thomas Hardy
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