The Old Year Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABAAB CDEDDE AAFAAF GGHGGH IJKJIK LLELLE IMNIIN| The old year is dying | A |
| Its last hour is hieing | A |
| Over the verge | B |
| The night winds are plying | A |
| And are mournfully sighing | A |
| Its funeral dirge | B |
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| And now in its even | C |
| While its spirit is riven | D |
| Through the bright zone | E |
| Beyond the heaven | D |
| To whence it was given | D |
| To the unknown | E |
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| Its sadness in ending | A |
| Like a cloud is descending | A |
| Over my soul | F |
| And the thoughts that are pending | A |
| With the low winds are blending | A |
| Helping their dole | F |
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| A year of existence | G |
| Has passed to the distance | G |
| Ne'er to return | H |
| To the right was resistance | G |
| From duty desistance | G |
| Nor would I learn | H |
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| But duty neglected | I |
| And virtue rejected | J |
| We may amend | K |
| Then why be dejected | J |
| So sorely affected | I |
| Whence does it tend | K |
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| Is it that pleasure | L |
| In liberal measure | L |
| I have not known | E |
| Ah rapturous pleasure | L |
| In memory I treasure | L |
| But it is flown | E |
| - | |
| Opportunity wasted | I |
| Though far we have passed it | M |
| We may retrieve | N |
| But beakers once tasted | I |
| Of bliss while they lasted | I |
| Bitterness leave | N |
W. M. Mackeracher
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