Comfortable Light Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD AAEF GGHH IIAA JHKK LLMM HHNO AAPP HHQR SSAA| Most comfortable Light | A |
| Light of the small lamp burning up the night | A |
| With dawn enleagued against the beaten dark | B |
| Pure golden perfect spark | B |
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| Or sudden wind bright flame | C |
| That but the strong handed wind can urge or tame | C |
| Chill loveliest light the kneeling clouds between | D |
| Silverly serene | D |
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| Comfort of happy light | A |
| That mouse like leaps amid brown leaves cheating sight | A |
| Clear naked stars burning with swift intense | E |
| Earthward intelligence | F |
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| Sensitive single | G |
| Points in the dark inane that purely tingle | G |
| With eager fire pouring night's circles through | H |
| Their living blue | H |
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| Dark light still waters hold | I |
| Broad silver moonpath trodden into gold | I |
| Candle flame glittering through the traveller's night | A |
| Most comfortable light | A |
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| And lovelier the eye | J |
| Where light from darkness shines unfathomably | H |
| Light secret clear shallow profound known strange | K |
| Constant alone in change | K |
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| Not that wild light that turns | L |
| Hunted from dying eyes when the last fire burns | L |
| O not that bitter light of wounded things | M |
| When bony anguish springs | M |
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| Sudden intolerable | H |
| Nor light of mad eyes gleaming up from hell | H |
| Come not again wild light Shine not again | N |
| Hill flare of pain | O |
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| But thou most holy light | A |
| Not the noon blaze that stings too fiercely bright | A |
| Not that unwinking stare of shameless day | P |
| But thou the gray | P |
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| Nun like and silent still | H |
| Fine breathed on many an eastern bare green hill | H |
| Keen light of gray eyes cool rain and stern spears | Q |
| Sad light but not to tears | R |
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| O comfort thou of eyes | S |
| Watching expectant from chill northern skies | S |
| Excellent joy for lids heavy with night | A |
| Strange with delight | A |
John Freeman
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