The Golden Mile-stone Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IHJK LFMN OAFN JPFN OFQH RALE SJTU VWNX YFZA2 TTXT| Leafless are the trees their purple branches | A |
| Spread themselves abroad like reefs of coral | B |
| Rising silent | C |
| In the Red Sea of the Winter sunset | D |
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| From the hundred chimneys of the village | E |
| Like the Afreet in the Arabian story | F |
| Smoky columns | G |
| Tower aloft into the air of amber | H |
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| At the window winks the flickering fire light | I |
| Here and there the lamps of evening glimmer | H |
| Social watch fires | J |
| Answering one another through the darkness | K |
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| On the hearth the lighted logs are glowing | L |
| And like Ariel in the cloven pine tree | F |
| For its freedom | M |
| Groans and sighs the air imprisoned in them | N |
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| By the fireside there are old men seated | O |
| Seeing ruined cities in the ashes | A |
| Asking sadly | F |
| Of the Past what it can ne'er restore them | N |
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| By the fireside there are youthful dreamers | J |
| Building castles fair with stately stairways | P |
| Asking blindly | F |
| Of the Future what it cannot give them | N |
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| By the fireside tragedies are acted | O |
| In whose scenes appear two actors only | F |
| Wife and husband | Q |
| And above them God the sole spectator | H |
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| By the fireside there are peace and comfort | R |
| Wives and children with fair thoughtful faces | A |
| Waiting watching | L |
| For a well known footstep in the passage | E |
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| Each man's chimney is his Golden Mile stone | S |
| Is the central point from which he measures | J |
| Every distance | T |
| Through the gateways of the world around him | U |
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| In his farthest wanderings still he sees it | V |
| Hears the talking flame the answering night wind | W |
| As he heard them | N |
| When he sat with those who were but are not | X |
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| Happy he whom neither wealth nor fashion | Y |
| Nor the march of the encroaching city | F |
| Drives an exile | Z |
| From the hearth of his ancestral homestead | A2 |
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| We may build more splendid habitations | T |
| Fill our rooms with paintings and with sculptures | T |
| But we cannot | X |
| Buy with gold the old associations | T |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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