The Candle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGE HIJHKLML LMNMNJLJ OJCJLLLL| Time like a cloud | A |
| Has risen from the East | B |
| And whelmed the sky over | C |
| Even to the wide arched West | D |
| Darkening the blue | E |
| Embrowning the early gold | F |
| Until no more the eternal Sun | G |
| Looks simply through | E |
| - | |
| In each man's eyes | H |
| The cloud is set | I |
| With but the chill light | J |
| Of silver January skies | H |
| On each man's heart | K |
| Time's firm shadow falls | L |
| And the mind throws but a candle's beam | M |
| On the dark walls | L |
| - | |
| But on those walls | L |
| Man paints his dream | M |
| Rejoicing purely | N |
| In the faithful candle's beam | M |
| Lives by its beauty | N |
| Pictures his heart's delight | J |
| And with that only beam outbraves | L |
| Time's gathering night | J |
| - | |
| O spiritual flame | O |
| Calm faithful bright | J |
| Time may whelm over | C |
| All but this candle's light | J |
| Shadow but shadow is | L |
| Dark though it lies | L |
| 'Tis blazon'd with man's long dreamed dreams | L |
| Pierced by his eyes | L |
John Frederick Freeman
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