Retro Santhanas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDE FFG| '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 ' | C |
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| 'But ah suppose the sun should never shine | D |
| Then what an anguish of regret were mine | D |
| To know that even from this I turned away | E |
| Candles may serve if there should be no day ' | - |
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| 'Nay better to go cold your whole life long | F |
| Than do the sun than do your soul such wrong | F |
| And if the sun shine not be life's the blame | G |
| And yours the pride who scorned the meaner flame ' | - |
Edith Nesbit
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