Ceremony After A Fire Raid Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDBEFB GHHHIJKL MMBNOPQ HHARBSTS A UVWGTJAXYUXLJJ ZZBBJBA2XBJJBBB A BBBBUBB2UBBBBUBUBU

IA
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MyselvesB
The grieversB
GrieveC
Among the street burned to tireless deathD
A child of a few hoursB
With its kneading mouthE
Charred on the black breast of the graveF
The mother dug and its arms full of firesB
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BeginG
With singingH
SingH
Darkness kindled back into beginningH
When the caught tongue nodded blindI
A star was brokenJ
Into the centuries of the childK
Myselves grieve now and miracles cannot atoneL
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ForgiveM
Us forgiveM
Us your death that myselves the believersB
May hold it in a great floodN
Till the blood shall spurtO
And the dust shall sing like a birdP
As the grains blow as your death grows through our heartQ
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CryingH
Your dyingH
CryA
Child beyond cockcrow by the fire dwarfedR
Street we chant the flying seaB
In the body bereftS
Love is the last light spoken OhT
Seed of sons in the loin of the black husk leftS
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IIA
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I know not whetherU
Adam or Eve the adorned holy bullockV
Or the white ewe lambW
Or the chosen virginG
Laid in her snowT
On the altar of LondonJ
Was the first to dieA
In the cinder of the little skullX
O bride and bride groomY
O Adam and Eve togetherU
Lying in the lullX
Under the sad breast of the head stoneL
White as the skeletonJ
Of the garden of EdenJ
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I know the legendZ
Of Adam and Eve is never for a secondZ
Silent in my serviceB
Over the dead infantsB
Over the oneJ
Child who was priest and servantsB
Word singers and tongueA2
In the cinder of the little skullX
Who was the serpent'sB
Night fall and the fruit like a sunJ
Man and woman undoneJ
Beginning crumbled back to darknessB
Bare as nurseriesB
Of the garden of wildernessB
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IIIA
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Into the organpipes and steeplesB
Of the luminous cathedralsB
Into the weathercocks' molten mouthsB
Rippling in twelve winded circlesB
Into the dead clock burning the hourU
Over the urn of sabbathsB
Over the whirling ditch of daybreakB2
Over the sun's hovel and the slum of fireU
And the golden pavements laid in requiemsB
Into the bread in a wheatfield of flamesB
Into the wine burning like brandyB
The masses of the seaB
The masses of the sea underU
The masses of the infant bearing seaB
Erupt fountain and enter to utter for everU
Glory glory gloryB
The sundering ultimate kingdom of genesis' thunderU

Dylan Thomas



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