New Year's Eve Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB ACAAC DDDDD EFEEF GHGGI IAIIA| I 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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