But Most Thy Light Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC DEEF GHID AJJC AKLM NOPN AQQQ QRRQ SDDT QUUVI 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 Freeman
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