Burns: An Ode Poem Rhyme Scheme

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A fire of fierce and laughing light	A
That clove the shuddering heart of night	A
Leapt earthward and the thunder's might	A
That pants and yearns	B
Made fitful music round its flight	A
And earth saw Burns	B
The joyous lightning found its voice	C
And bade the heart of wrath rejoice	C
And scorn uplift a song to voice	C
The imperial hate	D
That smote the God of base men's choice	C
At God's own gate	D
Before the shrine of dawn wherethrough	E
The lark rang rapture as she flew	F
It flashed and fired the darkling dew	F
And all that heard	G
With love or loathing hailed anew	F
A new day's word	G
The servants of the lord of hell	H
As though their lord had blessed them fell	H
Foaming at mouth for fear so well	H
They knew the lie	I
Wherewith they sought to scan and spell	H
The unsounded sky	I
And Calvin night's prophetic bird	G
Out of his home in hell was heard	G
Shrieking and all the fens were stirred	G
Whence plague is bred	J
Can God endure the scoffer's word	G
But God was dead	J
The God they made them in despite	A
Of man and woman love and light	A
Strong sundawn and the starry night	A
The lie supreme	K
Shot through with song stood forth to sight	A
A devil's dream	K
And he that bent the lyric bow	L
And laid the lord of darkness low	M
And bade the fire of laughter glow	M
Across his grave	N
And bade the tides above it flow	M
Wave hurtling wave	N
Shall he not win from latter days	O
More than his own could yield of praise	O
Ay could the sovereign singer's bays	O
Forsake his brow	L
The warrior's won on stormier ways	O
Still clasp it now	L
He loved and sang of love he laughed	P
And bade the cup whereout he quaffed	P
Shine as a planet fore and aft	P
And left and right	P
And keen as shoots the sun's first shaft	P
Against the night	P
But love and wine were moon and sun	Q
For many a fame long since undone	Q
And sorrow and joy have lost and won	Q
By stormy turns	B
As many a singer's soul if none	Q
More bright than Burns	B
And sweeter far in grief or mirth	R
Have songs as glad and sad of birth	R
Found voice to speak of wealth or dearth	R
In joy of life	S
But never song took fire from earth	R
More strong for strife	S
The daisy by his ploughshare cleft	P
The lips of women loved and left	P
The griefs and joys that weave the weft	P
Of human time	T
With craftsman's cunning keen and deft	P
He carved in rhyme	T
But Chaucer's daisy shines a star	E
Above his ploughshare's reach to mar	E
And mightier vision gave Dunbar	E
More strenuous wing	U
To hear around all sins that are	E
Hell dance and sing	U
And when such pride and power of trust	P
In song's high gift to arouse from dust	P
Death and transfigure love or lust	P
Through smiles or tears	V
In golden speech that takes no rust	P
From cankering years	W
As never spake but once in one	Q
Strong star crossed child of earth and sun	Q
Villon made music such as none	Q
May praise or blame	X
A crown of starrier flower was won	Q
Than Burns may claim	X
But never since bright earth was born	Y
In rapture of the enkindling morn	Y
Might godlike wrath and sunlike scorn	Y
That was and is	Z
And shall be while false weeds are worn	Y
Find word like his	Z
Above the rude and radiant earth	R
That heaves and glows from firth to firth	R
In vale and mountain bright in dearth	R
And warm in wealth	A2
Which gave his fiery glory birth	R
By chance and stealth	A2
Above the storms of praise and blame	X
That blur with mist his lustrous name	X
His thunderous laughter went and came	X
And lives and flies	B2
The roar that follows on the flame	X
When lightning dies	B2
Earth and the snow dimmed heights of air	E
And water winding soft and fair	E
Through still sweet places bright and bare	E
By bent and byre	E
Taught him what hearts within them were	E
But his was fire	E

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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