The Fire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDCCDEEFFGGHIJKL LMMLL NN OPPQRQRSSFCCFTTTUUBB UU VWXFVFXXW| I was picking raspberries my head was in the canes | A |
| And he came behind and kissed me and I smacked him for his pains | A |
| Says he You take it easy That ain't the way to do | B |
| I love you hot as fire my girl and you know you know it too | B |
| So won't you name the day | C |
| But I said That I will not | D |
| And I pushed him away | C |
| Out among the raspberries all on a summer day | C |
| And I says You ask in winter if your love's so hot | D |
| For it's summer now and sunny and my hands is full says I | E |
| With the fair by and by | E |
| And the village dance and all | F |
| And the turkey poults is small | F |
| And so's the ducks and chicks | G |
| And the hay not yet in ricks | G |
| And the flower show'll be presently and hop picking's to come | H |
| And the fruiting and the harvest home | I |
| And my new white gown to make and the jam all to be done | J |
| Can't you leave a girl alone | K |
| Your love's too hot for me | L |
| Can't you leave a girl be | L |
| Till the evenings do draw in | M |
| Till the leaves be getting thin | M |
| Till the fires be lighted early and the curtains drawed for tea | L |
| That's the time to do your courting if you come a courting me | L |
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| And he took it as I said it an' not as it was meant | N |
| And he went | N |
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| The hay was stacked the fruit was picked the hops were dry and | O |
| brown | P |
| And everything was garnered and the year turned upside down | P |
| And the winter it come on and the fires were early lit | Q |
| And he'd never come anigh again and all my life was sick | R |
| And I was cold alone with nought to do but sit | Q |
| With my hands in my black lap and hear the clock tick | R |
| For father he lay dead | S |
| With the candles at his head | S |
| And his coffin was that black I could see it through the wall | F |
| And I'd sent them all away | C |
| Though they'd offered for to stay | C |
| I wanted to be cold alone and learn to bear it all | F |
| Then I heard him I'd a known it for his footstep just as plain | T |
| If he'd brought his regiment with him up the rutty frozen lane | T |
| And I hadn't drawed the curtains and I see him through the pane | T |
| And I jumped up in my blacks and I threw the door back wide | U |
| Says I You come inside | U |
| For it's cold outside for you | B |
| And it's cold here too | B |
| And I haven't no more pride | U |
| It's too cold for that I cried | U |
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| Then I saw in his face | V |
| The fear of death and desire | W |
| And oh I took and kissed him again and again | X |
| And I clipped him close and all | F |
| In the winter in the dusk in the quiet house place | V |
| With the coffin lying black and full the other side the wall | F |
| And YOU warm my heart I told him if there's any fire in men | X |
| And he got his two arms round me and I felt the fire then | X |
| And I warmed my heart at the fire | W |
E. (edith) Nesbit
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