The Open Fire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDEDEFGFGAAHIHI ACACHHJAJA| There in the flame of the open grate | A |
| All that is good in the past I see | B |
| Red lipped youth on the swinging gate | A |
| Bright eyed youth with its minstrelsy | B |
| Girls and boys that I used to know | C |
| Back in the days of Long Ago | C |
| Troop before in the smoke and flame | D |
| Chatter and sing as the wild birds do | E |
| Everyone I can call by name | D |
| For the fire builds all of my youth anew | E |
| Outside people go stamping by | F |
| Squeak of wheel on the evening air | G |
| Stars and planets race through the sky | F |
| Here are darkness and silence rare | G |
| Only the flames in the open grate | A |
| Crackle and flare as they burn up hate | A |
| Malice and envy and greed for gold | H |
| Dancing laughing my cares away | I |
| I've forgotten that I am old | H |
| Once again I'm a boy at play | I |
| There in the flame of the open grate | A |
| Bright the pictures come and go | C |
| Lovers swing on the garden gate | A |
| Lovers kiss 'neath the mistletoe | C |
| I've forgotten that I am old | H |
| I've forgotten my story's told | H |
| Whistling boy down the lane I stroll | J |
| All untouched by the blows of fate | A |
| Time turns back and I'm young of soul | J |
| Dreaming there by the open grate | A |
Edgar Albert Guest
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