At The Entering Of The New Year Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCBCDED FCCCBGCG A HIHIDBBD JJJJBBBB K| I OLD STYLE | A |
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| Our songs went up and out the chimney | B |
| And roused the home gone husbandmen | B |
| Our allemands our heys poussettings | C |
| Our hands across and back again | B |
| Sent rhythmic throbbings through the casements | C |
| On to the white highway | D |
| Where nighted farers paused and muttered | E |
| Keep it up well do they | D |
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| The contrabasso's measured booming | F |
| Sped at each bar to the parish bounds | C |
| To shepherds at their midnight lambings | C |
| To stealthy poachers on their rounds | C |
| And everybody caught full duly | B |
| The notes of our delight | G |
| As Time unrobed the Youth of Promise | C |
| Hailed by our sanguine sight | G |
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| II NEW STYLE | A |
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| We stand in the dusk of a pine tree limb | H |
| As if to give ear to the muffled peal | I |
| Brought or withheld at the breeze's whim | H |
| But our truest heed is to words that steal | I |
| From the mantled ghost that looms in the gray | D |
| And seems so far as our sense can see | B |
| To feature bereaved Humanity | B |
| As it sighs to the imminent year its say | D |
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| O stay without O stay without | J |
| Calm comely Youth untasked untired | J |
| Though stars irradiate thee about | J |
| Thy entrance here is undesired | J |
| Open the gate not mystic one | B |
| Must we avow what we would close confine | B |
| WITH THEE GOOD FRIEND WE WOULD HAVE CONVERSE NONE | B |
| Albeit the fault may not be thine | B |
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| December During the War | K |
Thomas Hardy
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