The Story Of The Ashes And The Flame Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBA CDCEEF| No matter why nor whence nor when she came | A |
| There was her place No matter what men said | B |
| No matter what she was living or dead | B |
| Faithful or not he loved her all the same | A |
| The story was as old as human shame | A |
| But ever since that lonely night she fled | B |
| With books to blind him he had only read | B |
| The story of the ashes and the flame | A |
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| There she was always coming pretty soon | C |
| To fool him back with penitent scared eyes | D |
| That had in them the laughter of the moon | C |
| For baffled lovers and to make him think | E |
| Before she gave him time enough to wink | E |
| Sin's kisses were the keys to Paradise | F |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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