But Most Thy Light Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC DEEF GHID AJJC AKLM NOPN AQQQ QRRQ SDDT QUUV| I know how fire burns | A |
| How from the wrangling fumes | B |
| Rose and amber blooms | B |
| And slowly dies | C |
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| Nothing's so swift as fire | D |
| There's nothing alive so fierce | E |
| The lifted lances pierce | E |
| Sink and upspring | F |
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| Like an Indian sword it leaps | G |
| Out of the smoking sheath | H |
| Even the winged feet of death | I |
| Learn speed from fire | D |
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| And pain its cunning learns | A |
| Languor its sweet | J |
| From the decaying heat | J |
| That never dies | C |
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| I know how fire burns | A |
| Unguessed save for tears | K |
| When the thousand fanged flame spears | L |
| The body's guard | M |
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| Or when the mind the mind | N |
| Is ever glowing wood | O |
| And fire runs in the blood | P |
| Lunatic blind | N |
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| When remorse burns and burns | A |
| And burns always always | Q |
| The fire that surest slays | Q |
| Or surest numbs | Q |
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| I know how fire burns | Q |
| But how I cannot tell | R |
| And Heaven burns like Hell | R |
| Yet the Heart endures | Q |
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| 'Tis the immortal Flame | S |
| In mortal life that's bitter | D |
| Or than all sweet sweeter | D |
| Though life burns down | T |
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| Teach me fire but this | Q |
| Nor alone destroying burn | U |
| Of thy warmth let me learn | U |
| But most thy light | V |
John Frederick Freeman
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