The Grate Fire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDBBEEFFGGHHII JJKK| I'm sorry for a fellow if he cannot look and see | A |
| In a grate fire's friendly flaming all the joys which used to be | A |
| If in quiet contemplation of a cheerful ruddy blaze | B |
| He sees nothing there recalling all his happy yesterdays | B |
| Then his mind is dead to fancy and his life is bleak and bare | C |
| And he's doomed to walk the highways that are always thick with care | C |
| When the logs are dry as tinder and they crackle with the heat | D |
| And the sparks like merry children come a dancing round my feet | D |
| In the cold long nights of autumn I can sit before the blaze | B |
| And watch a panorama born of all my yesterdays | B |
| I can leave the present burdens and that moment's bit of woe | E |
| And claim once more the gladness of the bygone long ago | E |
| There are no absent faces in the grate fire's merry throng | F |
| No hands in death are folded and no lips are stilled to song | F |
| All the friends who were are living like the sparks that fly about | G |
| They come romping out to greet me with the same old merry shout | G |
| Till it seems to me I'm playing once again on boyhood's stage | H |
| Where there's no such thing as sorrow and there's no such thing as age | H |
| I can be the care free schoolboy I can play the lover too | I |
| I can walk through Maytime orchards with the old sweetheart I knew | I |
| I can dream the glad dreams over greet the old familiar friends | J |
| In a land where there's no parting and the laughter never ends | J |
| All the gladness life has given from a grate fire I reclaim | K |
| And I'm sorry for the fellow who can only see the flame | K |
Edgar Albert Guest
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