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 yearningA
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For spiritual perfection here belowB
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This vigorous frame with healthful fervor burningA
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Seems my determined foeB
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So actively it makes a stern resistanceC
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So cruelly sometimes it wages warD
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Against a wholly spiritual existenceC
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Which I am striving forD
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It interrupts my soul's intense devotionsC
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Some hope it strangles of divinest birthE
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With a swift rush of violent emotionsC
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Which link me to the earthE
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It is as if two mortal foes contendedF
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Within my bosom in a deadly strifeG
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One for the loftier aims for souls intendedH
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One for the earthly lifeG
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And yet I know this very war within meI
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Which brings out all my will power and controlJ
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This very conflict at the last shall win meI
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The loved and longed for goalJ
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The very fire which seems sometimes so cruelK
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Is the white light that shows me my own strengthL
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A furnace fed by the divinest fuelK
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It may become at lengthL
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Ah when in the immortal ranks enlistedF
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I sometimes wonder if we shall not findM
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That not by deeds but by what we've resistedF
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Our places are assignedM

Ella Wheeler Wilcox



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