As By Fire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B A B C D C D C E C E F G H G I J I J K L K L F M F M| Sometimes I feel so passionate a yearning | A |
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| For spiritual perfection here below | B |
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| This vigorous frame with healthful fervor burning | A |
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| Seems my determined foe | B |
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| So actively it makes a stern resistance | C |
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| So cruelly sometimes it wages war | D |
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| Against a wholly spiritual existence | C |
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| Which I am striving for | D |
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| It interrupts my soul's intense devotions | C |
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| Some hope it strangles of divinest birth | E |
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| With a swift rush of violent emotions | C |
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| Which link me to the earth | E |
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| It is as if two mortal foes contended | F |
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| Within my bosom in a deadly strife | G |
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| One for the loftier aims for souls intended | H |
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| One for the earthly life | G |
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| And yet I know this very war within me | I |
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| Which brings out all my will power and control | J |
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| This very conflict at the last shall win me | I |
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| The loved and longed for goal | J |
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| The very fire which seems sometimes so cruel | K |
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| Is the white light that shows me my own strength | L |
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| A furnace fed by the divinest fuel | K |
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| It may become at length | L |
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| Ah when in the immortal ranks enlisted | F |
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| I sometimes wonder if we shall not find | M |
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| That not by deeds but by what we've resisted | F |
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| Our places are assigned | M |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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