Flower-de-luce: The Wind Over The Chimney Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBB CCDBBD EEABBA FF AA GGHIIH FFJKK BBLMML NNOAA PPBBB AAQRR| See the fire is sinking low | A |
| Dusky red the embers glow | A |
| While above them still I cower | B |
| While a moment more I linger | B |
| Though the clock with lifted finger | B |
| Points beyond the midnight hour | B |
| - | |
| Sings the blackened log a tune | C |
| Learned in some forgotten June | C |
| From a school boy at his play | D |
| When they both were young together | B |
| Heart of youth and summer weather | B |
| Making all their holiday | D |
| - | |
| And the night wind rising hark | E |
| How above there in the dark | E |
| In the midnight and the snow | A |
| Ever wilder fiercer grander | B |
| Like the trumpets of Iskander | B |
| All the noisy chimneys blow | A |
| - | |
| Every quivering tongue of flame | F |
| Seems to murmur some great name | F |
| Seems to say to me 'Aspire ' | - |
| But the night wind answers 'Hollow | A |
| Are the visions that you follow | A |
| Into darkness sinks your fire ' | - |
| - | |
| Then the flicker of the blaze | G |
| Gleams on volumes of old days | G |
| Written by masters of the art | H |
| Loud through whose majestic pages | I |
| Rolls the melody of ages | I |
| Throb the harp strings of the heart | H |
| - | |
| And again the tongues of flame | F |
| Start exulting and exclaim | F |
| 'These are prophets bards and seers | J |
| In the horoscope of nations | K |
| Like ascendant constellations | K |
| They control the coming years ' | - |
| - | |
| But the night wind cries 'Despair | B |
| Those who walk with feet of air | B |
| Leave no long enduring marks | L |
| At God's forges incandescent | M |
| Mighty hammers beat incessant | M |
| These are but the flying sparks | L |
| - | |
| 'Dust are all the hands that wrought | N |
| Books are sepulchres of thought | N |
| The dead laurels of the dead | O |
| Rustle for a moment only | A |
| Like the withered leaves in lonely | A |
| Churchyards at some passing tread ' | - |
| - | |
| Suddenly the flame sinks down | P |
| Sink the rumors of renown | P |
| And alone the night wind drear | B |
| Clamors louder wilder vaguer | B |
| ''Tis the brand of Meleager | B |
| Dying on the hearth stone here ' | - |
| - | |
| And I answer 'Though it be | A |
| Why should that discomfort me | A |
| No endeavor is in vain | Q |
| Its reward is in the doing | R |
| And the rapture of pursuing | R |
| Is the prize the vanquished gain ' | - |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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