A New Year's Gift Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBB CCDDEEBBFFGG| We are prevented you whose Presence is | A |
| A Publick New yeares gift a Common bliss | B |
| To all that Love or Feare give no man leave | C |
| To vie a Gift but first he shall receave | C |
| Like as the Persian Sun with golden Eies | B |
| First shines upon the Priest and Sacrifice | B |
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| Ile on howere May this yeare happier prove | C |
| Than all the Golden Age when Vertue strove | C |
| With nothing but with Vertue may it bee | D |
| Such as the Dayes of Saturnes Infancy | D |
| May every Tide and Season joyntly fitt | E |
| All your Intents and your Occasions hitt | E |
| May every Grayne of Sand within your Glass | B |
| Number a fresh content before it pass | B |
| And when success comes on stand then each howre | F |
| Like Josuah's Day grow to three or fowre | F |
| At last when this yeare rounds and wheeles away | G |
| Bee still the next yeare like the old yeares Day | G |
William Strode
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