The Dying Year
Eugene Field 1850 (St. Louis) – 1895 (Chicago)
The year has been a tedious one--
A weary round of toil and sorrow,
And, since it now at last is gone,
We say farewell and hail the morrow.
Yet o'er the wreck which time has wrought
A sweet, consoling ray is shimmered--
The one but compensating thought
That literary life has glimmered.
Struggling with hunger and with cold
The world contemptuously beheld 'er;
The little thing was one year old--
But who'd have cared had she been elder?
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | XAXA BXBB CDCD |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 434 |
Words | 81 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
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