Flame-heart Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGGHIJIKLMLGG NOPOOQQQGG| So much have I forgotten in ten years | A |
| So much in ten brief years I have forgot | B |
| What time the purple apples come to juice | C |
| And what month brings the shy forget me not | B |
| I have forgot the special startling season | D |
| Of the pimento's flowering and fruiting | E |
| What time of year the ground doves brown the fields | F |
| And fill the noonday with their curious fluting | E |
| I have forgotten much but still remember | G |
| The poinsettia's red blood red in warm December | G |
| I still recall the honey fever grass | H |
| But cannot recollect the high days when | I |
| We rooted them out of the ping wing path | J |
| To stop the mad bees in the rabbit pen | I |
| I often try to think in what sweet month | K |
| The languid painted ladies used to dapple | L |
| The yellow by road mazing from the main | M |
| Sweet with the golden threads of the rose apple | L |
| I have forgotten strange but quite remember | G |
| The poinsettia's red blood red in warm December | G |
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| What weeks what months what time of the mild year | N |
| We cheated school to have our fling at tops | O |
| What days our wine thrilled bodies pulsed with joy | P |
| Feasting upon blackberries in the copse | O |
| Oh some I know I have embalmed the days | O |
| Even the sacred moments when we played | Q |
| All innocent of passion uncorrupt | Q |
| At noon and evening in the flame heart's shade | Q |
| We were so happy happy I remember | G |
| Beneath the poinsettia's red in warm December | G |
Claude Mckay
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