Of The Flie At The Candle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFFGGHIBB J KKLLMM| hat ails this fly thus desperately to enter | A |
| A combat with the candle Will she venture | A |
| To clash at light Away thou silly fly | B |
| Thus doing thou wilt burn thy wings and die | B |
| But 'tis a folly her advice to give | C |
| She'll kill the candle or she will not live | D |
| Slap says she at it then she makes retreat | E |
| So wheels about and doth her blows repeat | E |
| Nor doth the candle let her quite escape | F |
| But gives some little check unto the ape | F |
| Throws up her heels it doth so down she falls | G |
| Where she lies sprawling and for succour calls | G |
| When she recovers up she gets again | H |
| And at the candle comes with might and main | I |
| But now behold the candle takes the fly | B |
| And holds her till she doth by burning die | B |
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| Comparison | J |
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| This candle is an emblem of that light | K |
| Our gospel gives in this our darksome night | K |
| The fly a lively picture is of those | L |
| That hate and do this gospel light oppose | L |
| At last the gospel doth become their snare | M |
| Doth them with burning hands in pieces tear | M |
John Bunyan
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