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 AAQRRSee 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 ' | - |
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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 |
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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 ' | - |
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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 |
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'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 ' | - |
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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 ' | - |
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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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