Scatter The Silver Ash Like Snow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDD EFGHHH IJKLLL MNGOOO PQRSSS| O what insect is it | A |
| That burrows in the heart and frets | B |
| The heart's near nerves | C |
| Leaving its unclean | D |
| Stigmata in the mind serene | D |
| Making the proud how mean | D |
| - | |
| It is not common hate | E |
| Anger has not such deadly cunning | F |
| To annul to chill | G |
| Wild anger is not | H |
| So cunning even while so hot | H |
| Hate is too soon forgot | H |
| - | |
| There is no sword so sharp | I |
| With lightnings as the wanton tongue | J |
| Nothing that burns like words | K |
| Bubbling flames that spread | L |
| In the now unspiritual head | L |
| By sleepless fevers fed | L |
| - | |
| O evil words that are | M |
| The knives of desolating thought | N |
| And though words be still | G |
| The hot eyes yet dart | O |
| Burning deaths from this mad heart | O |
| Into that torn heart | O |
| - | |
| O Love forget forget | P |
| Put by that glittering edge put by | Q |
| Slay the insect with light | R |
| Smother that smoky glow | S |
| Scatter the silver ash like snow | S |
| When thy spring airs blow | S |
John Frederick Freeman
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