The Wind Over The Chimney Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBB CCDBBD EEABBA FFBAAB GGHIIH FFJKKL BBMNNM OOPQQP RRBBBB QQSTTS| 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 |
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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 | B |
| But the night wind answers Hollow | A |
| Are the visions that you follow | A |
| Into darkness sinks your fire | B |
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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 | L |
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| But the night wind cries Despair | B |
| Those who walk with feet of air | B |
| Leave no long enduring marks | M |
| At God's forges incandescent | N |
| Mighty hammers beat incessant | N |
| These are but the flying sparks | M |
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| Dust are all the hands that wrought | O |
| Books are sepulchres of thought | O |
| The dead laurels of the dead | P |
| Rustle for a moment only | Q |
| Like the withered leaves in lonely | Q |
| Churchyards at some passing tread | P |
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| Suddenly the flame sinks down | R |
| Sink the rumors of renown | R |
| And alone the night wind drear | B |
| Clamors louder wilder vaguer | B |
| 'T is the brand of Meleager | B |
| Dying on the hearth stone here | B |
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| And I answer Though it be | Q |
| Why should that discomfort me | Q |
| No endeavor is in vain | S |
| Its reward is in the doing | T |
| And the rapture of pursuing | T |
| Is the prize the vanquished gain | S |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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