Ceremony After A Fire Raid Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDBEFB GHHHIJKL MMBNOPQ HHARBSTS A UVWGTJAXYUXLJJ ZZBBJBA2XBJJBBB A BBBBUBB2UBBBBUBUBUI | A |
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Myselves | B |
The grievers | B |
Grieve | C |
Among the street burned to tireless death | D |
A child of a few hours | B |
With its kneading mouth | E |
Charred on the black breast of the grave | F |
The mother dug and its arms full of fires | B |
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Begin | G |
With singing | H |
Sing | H |
Darkness kindled back into beginning | H |
When the caught tongue nodded blind | I |
A star was broken | J |
Into the centuries of the child | K |
Myselves grieve now and miracles cannot atone | L |
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Forgive | M |
Us forgive | M |
Us your death that myselves the believers | B |
May hold it in a great flood | N |
Till the blood shall spurt | O |
And the dust shall sing like a bird | P |
As the grains blow as your death grows through our heart | Q |
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Crying | H |
Your dying | H |
Cry | A |
Child beyond cockcrow by the fire dwarfed | R |
Street we chant the flying sea | B |
In the body bereft | S |
Love is the last light spoken Oh | T |
Seed of sons in the loin of the black husk left | S |
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II | A |
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I know not whether | U |
Adam or Eve the adorned holy bullock | V |
Or the white ewe lamb | W |
Or the chosen virgin | G |
Laid in her snow | T |
On the altar of London | J |
Was the first to die | A |
In the cinder of the little skull | X |
O bride and bride groom | Y |
O Adam and Eve together | U |
Lying in the lull | X |
Under the sad breast of the head stone | L |
White as the skeleton | J |
Of the garden of Eden | J |
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I know the legend | Z |
Of Adam and Eve is never for a second | Z |
Silent in my service | B |
Over the dead infants | B |
Over the one | J |
Child who was priest and servants | B |
Word singers and tongue | A2 |
In the cinder of the little skull | X |
Who was the serpent's | B |
Night fall and the fruit like a sun | J |
Man and woman undone | J |
Beginning crumbled back to darkness | B |
Bare as nurseries | B |
Of the garden of wilderness | B |
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III | A |
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Into the organpipes and steeples | B |
Of the luminous cathedrals | B |
Into the weathercocks' molten mouths | B |
Rippling in twelve winded circles | B |
Into the dead clock burning the hour | U |
Over the urn of sabbaths | B |
Over the whirling ditch of daybreak | B2 |
Over the sun's hovel and the slum of fire | U |
And the golden pavements laid in requiems | B |
Into the bread in a wheatfield of flames | B |
Into the wine burning like brandy | B |
The masses of the sea | B |
The masses of the sea under | U |
The masses of the infant bearing sea | B |
Erupt fountain and enter to utter for ever | U |
Glory glory glory | B |
The sundering ultimate kingdom of genesis' thunder | U |
Dylan Thomas
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