The Candle And The Flame Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAAB CCDEDED FGHGIJJI HKKKLFLF MMNMMOMO PQFFRFQR STSSJS UVUFFV WMMXXW YZZYA2LLA2| Thy hands are like cool herbs that bring | A |
| Balm to men's hearts upon them laid | B |
| Thy lovely petalled lips are made | B |
| As any blossom of the spring | A |
| But in thine eyes there is a thing | A |
| O Love that makes me half afraid | B |
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| For they are old those eyes They gleam | C |
| Between the waking and the dream | C |
| With antique wisdom like a bright | D |
| Lamp strangled by the temple's veil | E |
| That beckons to the acolyte | D |
| Who prays with trembling lips and pale | E |
| In the long watches of the night | D |
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| They are as old as Life They were | F |
| When proud Gomorrah reared its head | G |
| A new born city They were there | H |
| When in the places of the dead | G |
| Men swathed the body of the Lord | I |
| They visioned Pa wak raise the wall | J |
| Of China They saw Carthage fall | J |
| And marked the grim Hun lead his horde | I |
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| There is no secret anywhere | H |
| Nor any joy or shame that lies | K |
| Not writ somehow in those child eyes | K |
| Of thine O Love in some strange wise | K |
| Thou art the lad Endymion | L |
| And that great queen with spice and myrrh | F |
| From Araby whom Solomon | L |
| Delighted and the lust of her | F |
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| The legions marching from the sea | M |
| With C sar's cohorts sang of thee | M |
| How thy fair head was more to him | N |
| Than all the land of Italy | M |
| Yea in the old days thou wast she | M |
| Who lured Mark Antony from home | O |
| To death and Egypt seeing he | M |
| Lost love when he lost Rome | O |
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| Thou saw'st old Tubal strike the lyre | P |
| Yea first for thee the poet hurled | Q |
| Defiance at God's starry choir | F |
| Thou art the romance and the fire | F |
| Thou art the pageant and the strife | R |
| The clamour mounting high and higher | F |
| From all the lovers in the world | Q |
| To all the lords of love and life | R |
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| Perhaps the passions of mankind | S |
| Are but the torches mystical | T |
| Lit by some spirit hand to find | S |
| The dwelling of the Master Mind | S |
| That knows the secret of it all | J |
| In the great darkness and the wind | S |
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| We are the Candle Love the Flame | U |
| Each little life light flickers out | V |
| Love bides immortally the same | U |
| When of life's fever we shall tire | F |
| He will desert us and the fire | F |
| Rekindle new in prince or lout | V |
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| Twin born of knowledge and of lust | W |
| He was before us he shall be | M |
| Indifferent still of thee and me | M |
| When shattered is life's golden cup | X |
| When thy young limbs are shrivelled up | X |
| And when my heart is turned to dust | W |
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| Nay sweet smile not to know at last | Y |
| That thou and I or knave or fool | Z |
| Are but the involitient tool | Z |
| Of some world purpose vague and vast | Y |
| No bar to passion's fury set | A2 |
| With monstrous poppies spice the wine | L |
| For only drunk are we divine | L |
| And only mad shall we forget | A2 |
George Sylvester Viereck
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