An Altar-flame Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDECDE| EVEN as when utter summer makes the grain | A |
| Bow heavily along through the whole land | B |
| It seems to me whatever while I stand | B |
| Where thou art standing and upon my brain | A |
| Thy presence weighs like a most awful strain | A |
| Of music heard in some cathedral fanned | B |
| With the deep breath of prayer while the priest's hand | B |
| Uplifts the solemn sign which shall remain | A |
| After the world Thy beauty perfecteth | C |
| A noble calmness in me it doth send | D |
| Through my weak heart to my strong mind a rule | E |
| Of life that they shall keep till shut of death | C |
| Death an arched path too long to see the end | D |
| But which hath shadows that seem pure and cool | E |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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