The Burning Book Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A ABACDADA EFEFGHGH IFIFJJJJ KLKLJBJB| Or the Contented Metaphysician | A |
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| To the lore of no manner of men | A |
| Would his vision have yielded | B |
| When he found what will never again | A |
| From his vision be shielded | C |
| Though he paid with as much of his life | D |
| As a nun could have given | A |
| And to night would have been as a knife | D |
| Devil drawn devil driven | A |
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| For to night with his flame weary eyes | E |
| On the work he is doing | F |
| He considers the tinder that flies | E |
| And the quick flame pursuing | F |
| In the leaves that are crinkled and curled | G |
| Are his ashes of glory | H |
| And what once were an end of the world | G |
| Is an end of a story | H |
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| But he smiles for no more shall his days | I |
| Be a toil and a calling | F |
| For a way to make others to gaze | I |
| On God's face without falling | F |
| He has come to the end of his words | J |
| And alone he rejoices | J |
| In the choiring that silence affords | J |
| Of ineffable voices | J |
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| To a realm that his words may not reach | K |
| He may lead none to find him | L |
| An adept and with nothing to teach | K |
| He leaves nothing behind him | L |
| For the rest he will have his release | J |
| And his embers attended | B |
| By the large and unclamoring peace | J |
| Of a dream that is ended | B |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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