Old Fires Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCA DEFFGA HHIICA JJKKKA LLMMGA NNOOCA| The fire burns low | A |
| Where it has burned ages ago | A |
| Sinks and sighs | B |
| As it has done to a hundred eyes | B |
| Staring staring | C |
| At the last cold smokeless glow | A |
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| Here men sat | D |
| Lonely and watched the golden grate | E |
| Turn at length black | F |
| Heard the cooling iron crack | F |
| Shadows shadows | G |
| Watching the shadows come and go | A |
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| And still the hiss | H |
| I hear the soft fire's sob and kiss | H |
| And still it burns | I |
| And the bright gold to crimson turns | I |
| Sinking sinking | C |
| And the fire shadows larger grow | A |
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| O dark cheeked fire | J |
| Wasting like spent heart's desire | J |
| You that were gold | K |
| And now crimson will soon be cold | K |
| Cold cold | K |
| Like moon shadows on new snow | A |
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| Shadows all | L |
| They that watched your shadows fall | L |
| But now they come | M |
| Rising around me grave and dumb | M |
| Shadows shadows | G |
| Come as the fire shadows go | A |
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| And stay stay | N |
| Though all the fire sink cold as clay | N |
| Whispering still | O |
| Ancestral wise Familiars till | O |
| Staring staring | C |
| Dawn's wild fires through the casement glow | A |
John Freeman
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