To The New Year Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGH BIJKJLMN| st sunlight reaching down | A |
| to touch the tips of a few | B |
| high leaves that do not stir | C |
| as though they had not noticed | D |
| and did not know you at all | E |
| then the voice of a dove calls | F |
| from far away in itself | G |
| to the hush of the morning | H |
| - | |
| so this is the sound of you | B |
| here and now whether or not | I |
| anyone hears it this is | J |
| where we have come with our age | K |
| our knowledge such as it is | J |
| and our hopes such as they are | L |
| invisible before us | M |
| untouched and still possible | N |
William Stanley Merwin
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