A Song For New Year's Eve Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACAA DEDEAA FGFGAA HIHIAA JKJKAA LMLMAA| Stay yet my friends a moment stay | A |
| Stay till the good old year | B |
| So long companion of our way | A |
| Shakes hands and leaves us here | C |
| Oh stay oh stay | A |
| One little hour and then away | A |
| - | |
| The year whose hopes were high and strong | D |
| Has now no hopes to wake | E |
| Yet one hour more of jest and song | D |
| For his familiar sake | E |
| Oh stay oh stay | A |
| One mirthful hour and then away | A |
| - | |
| The kindly year his liberal hands | F |
| Have lavished all his store | G |
| And shall we turn from where he stands | F |
| Because he gives no more | G |
| Oh stay oh stay | A |
| One grateful hour and then away | A |
| - | |
| Days brightly came and calmly went | H |
| While yet he was our guest | I |
| How cheerfully the week was spent | H |
| How sweet the seventh day's rest | I |
| Oh stay oh stay | A |
| One golden hour and then away | A |
| - | |
| Dear friends were with us some who sleep | J |
| Beneath the coffin lid | K |
| What pleasant memories we keep | J |
| Of all they said and did | K |
| Oh stay oh stay | A |
| One tender hour and then away | A |
| - | |
| Even while we sing he smiles his last | L |
| And leaves our sphere behind | M |
| The good old year is with the past | L |
| Oh be the new as kind | M |
| Oh stay oh stay | A |
| One parting strain and then away | A |
William Cullen Bryant
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