Lighting The Fire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDD EFGHGH IJKLKM| You were a gipsy as you bent | A |
| Your dark hair over the black grate | B |
| Hardly the west light above the hill | C |
| Showed your shadow crooked and still | C |
| The bellows hissed and one bright spark | D |
| Deepened the hasty dark | D |
| - | |
| The bellows hissed and the old smell | E |
| Crept on the air of smoking peat | F |
| And round the spark a bubbling flame | G |
| Grew bright and loud Sweeping the gloom | H |
| Lunatic shadows fled and came | G |
| Whirling about the room | H |
| - | |
| Then as you raised your head I saw | I |
| In the clear light of the bubbling fire | J |
| Your dark hair all lined with the gray | K |
| Sprinkled by years and sorrow and pain | L |
| Till as the bellows idle lay | K |
| Shadow swept back again | M |
John Freeman
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