By The Seaside : The Fire Of Driftwood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHIH JKJL MNMN OPOP QRQS TKTL UVUV MKML WIWI

We sat within the farm house oldA
Whose windows looking o'er the bayB
Gave to the sea breeze damp and coldA
An easy entrance night and dayB
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Not far away we saw the portC
The strange old fashioned silent townD
The lighthouse the dismantled fortC
The wooden houses quaint and brownD
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We sat and talked until the nightE
Descending filled the little roomF
Our faces faded from the sightE
Our voices only broke the gloomF
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We spake of many a vanished sceneG
Of what we once had thought and saidH
Of what had been and might have beenI
And who was changed and who was deadH
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And all that fills the hearts of friendsJ
When first they feel with secret painK
Their lives thenceforth have separate endsJ
And never can be one againL
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The first slight swerving of the heartM
That words are powerless to expressN
And leave it still unsaid in partM
Or say it in too great excessN
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The very tones in which we spakeO
Had something strange I could but markP
The leaves of memory seemed to makeO
A mournful rustling in the darkP
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Oft died the words upon our lipsQ
As suddenly from out the fireR
Built of the wreck of stranded shipsQ
The flames would leap and then expireS
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And as their splendor flashed and failedT
We thought of wrecks upon the mainK
Of ships dismasted that were hailedT
And sent no answer back againL
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The windows rattling in their framesU
The ocean roaring up the beachV
The gusty blast the bickering flamesU
All mingled vaguely in our speechV
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Until they made themselves a partM
Of fancies floating through the brainK
The long lost ventures of the heartM
That send no answers back againL
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O flames that glowed O hearts that yearnedW
They were indeed too much akinI
The drift wood fire without that burnedW
The thoughts that burned and glowed withinI

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



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