The Brightness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAACDC EEDFFGGHH IJKLFMLNOOPKBBQ QQGRSQQ TKOUTPOVVWXO YZA2A2B2C2Z ZD2E2GRRF2G2H2F2 I2BJ2K2| Away away | A |
| Through that strange void and vast | B |
| Brimmed with dying day | A |
| Away | A |
| So that I feel | C |
| Only the wind | D |
| Of the world's swift rolling wheel | C |
| - | |
| See what a maze | E |
| Of whirling rays | E |
| The sharp wind | D |
| Weakens the air | F |
| Is but thin air | F |
| Not fume and flying fire | G |
| O heart's desire | G |
| Now thou art still | H |
| And the air chill | H |
| - | |
| And but a stem | I |
| Of clear cold light | J |
| Shines in this stony dark | K |
| Farewell world of sense | L |
| Too fair too fair | F |
| To be so false | M |
| Hence hence | L |
| Rosy memories | N |
| Delight of ears hands eyes | O |
| Rise | O |
| When I bid O thou | P |
| Tide of the dark | K |
| Whelming the pale last | B |
| Reflection of that vast | B |
| Too fair deceit | Q |
| - | |
| Ah sweet | Q |
| To miss the vexing heat | Q |
| Of the heart's desire | G |
| Only to know | R |
| All's lost lost | S |
| Sweet | Q |
| To know the lack of sweet | Q |
| - | |
| Thou fool | T |
| See how the steady dark | K |
| Is filled with eyes | O |
| Eyes that smile | U |
| Hot then how cool | T |
| Eyes that were stars till thou | P |
| Mad'st them eyes | O |
| O the tormenting | V |
| Look the unrelenting | V |
| Passionate kiss | W |
| Of their wild light on thine | X |
| Light of thine eyes | O |
| - | |
| As if one could | Y |
| Loathe the world for too much sweetness | Z |
| All the air's a flame | A2 |
| Wonderful yet the same | A2 |
| Thou'st hated | B2 |
| Being briefly sated | C2 |
| With sweet of sweetness | Z |
| - | |
| Forgive a heart whose madness | Z |
| Was not of madness born | D2 |
| But of mere wild | E2 |
| Waste of desire | G |
| Who does not know | R |
| One speaks so or so | R |
| Out of mere passion | F2 |
| That sees not love | G2 |
| From hate nor life from death | H2 |
| Nor hell from heaven | F2 |
| - | |
| In the East oh that flashed | I2 |
| Brightness past | B |
| The loveliness even | J2 |
| Of sunset's flush | K2 |
John Frederick Freeman
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