By The Fire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCABDEFFEGHHGHIJJIK LMNOPOQRSSRTUTU| We who are lovers sit by the fire | A |
| Cradled warm 'twixt thought and will | B |
| Sit and drowse like sleeping dogs | C |
| In the equipoise of all desire | A |
| Sit and listen to the still | B |
| Small hiss and whisper of green logs | D |
| That burn away that burn away | E |
| With the sound of a far off falling stream | F |
| Of threaded water blown to steam | F |
| Grey ghost in the mountain world of grey | E |
| Vapours blue as distance rise | G |
| Between the hissing logs that show | H |
| A glimpse of rosy heat below | H |
| And candles watch with tireless eyes | G |
| While we sit drowsing here I know | H |
| Dimly that there exists a world | I |
| That there is time perhaps and space | J |
| Other and wider than this place | J |
| Where at the fireside drowsily curled | I |
| We hear the whisper and watch the flame | K |
| Burn blinkless and inscrutable | L |
| And then I know those other names | M |
| That through my brain from cell to cell | N |
| Echo reverberated shout | O |
| Of waiters mournful along corridors | P |
| But nobody carries the orders out | O |
| And the names dear friends your name and yours | Q |
| Evoke no sign But here I sit | R |
| On the wide hearth and there are you | S |
| That is enough and only true | S |
| The world and the friends that lived in it | R |
| Are shadows you alone remain | T |
| Real in this drowsing room | U |
| Full of the whispers of distant rain | T |
| And candles staring into the gloom | U |
Aldous Leonard Huxley
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