Retro Sathanas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF| Refuse refrain for this is not the love | A |
| The Annunciation Angel warned you of | A |
| This is the little candle not the sun | B |
| It burns but will not warm unhappy one | B |
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| But ah suppose the sun should never shine | C |
| Then what an anguish of regret were mine | C |
| To know that even from this I turned away | D |
| Candles may serve if there should be no day | D |
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| Nay better to go cold your whole life long | E |
| Than do the sun than do your soul such wrong | E |
| And if the sun shine not be life's the blame | F |
| And yours the pride who scorned the meaner flame | F |
E. (edith) Nesbit
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