The Wax-candle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBDDEEFFGHGHCCIIII CJCJKK| A | |
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| From bowers of gods the bees came down to man | B |
| On Mount Hymettus first they say | C |
| They made their home and stored away | C |
| The treasures which the zephyrs fan | B |
| When men had robb'd these daughters of the sky | D |
| And left their palaces of nectar dry | D |
| Or as in French the thing's explain'd | E |
| When hives were of their honey drain'd | E |
| The spoilers 'gan the wax to handle | F |
| And fashion'd from it many a candle | F |
| Of these one seeing clay made brick by fire | G |
| Remain uninjured by the teeth of time | H |
| Was kindled into great desire | G |
| For immortality sublime | H |
| And so this new Empedocles | C |
| Upon the blazing pile one sees | C |
| Self doom'd by purest folly | I |
| To fate so melancholy | I |
| The candle lack'd philosophy | I |
| All things are made diverse to be | I |
| To wander from our destined tracks | C |
| There cannot be a vainer wish | J |
| But this Empedocles of wax | C |
| That melted in the chafing dish | J |
| Was truly not a greater fool | K |
| Than he of whom we read at school | K |
Jean De La Fontaine
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