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