New Year's Eve Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB ACAAC DDDDD EFEEF GHGGI IAIIAI have finished another year said God | A |
In grey green white and brown | B |
I have strewn the leaf upon the sod | A |
Sealed up the worm within the clod | A |
And let the last sun down | B |
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And what's the good of it I said | A |
What reasons made you call | C |
From formless void this earth we tread | A |
When nine and ninety can be read | A |
Why nought should be at all | C |
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Yea Sire why shaped you us 'who in | D |
This tabernacle groan' | D |
If ever a joy be found herein | D |
Such joy no man had wished to win | D |
If he had never known | D |
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Then he My labours logicless | E |
You may explain not I | F |
Sense sealed I have wrought without a guess | E |
That I evolved a Consciousness | E |
To ask for reasons why | F |
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Strange that ephemeral creatures who | G |
By my own ordering are | H |
Should see the shortness of my view | G |
Use ethic tests I never knew | G |
Or made provision for | I |
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He sank to raptness as of yore | I |
And opening New Year's Day | A |
Wove it by rote as theretofore | I |
And went on working evermore | I |
In his unweeting way | A |
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Thomas Hardy
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