Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The Fire Of Drift-wood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGFG HAIA JKJL MNMN OPOP QRQS TKTL UVUV MKML WIWI

DEVEREUX FARM NEAR MARBLEHEADA
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We sat within the farm house oldB
Whose windows looking o'er the bayC
Gave to the sea breeze damp and coldB
An easy entrance night and dayC
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Not far away we saw the portD
The strange old fashioned silent townE
The lighthouse the dismantled fortD
The wooden houses quaint and brownE
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We sat and talked until the nightF
Descending filled the little roomG
Our faces faded from the sightF
Our voices only broke the gloomG
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We spake of many a vanished sceneH
Of what we once had thought and saidA
Of what had been and might have beenI
And who was changed and who was deadA
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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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