The Dark Fire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GBHB FGCG FEIE JGBG KEEE LBMB| Love me not less | A |
| Yet ease me of this fever | B |
| That in my wondering heart | C |
| Burns sinks burns again ever | B |
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| Is it your love | D |
| In me so fiercely burning | E |
| Or my love leaping to you | F |
| Then requickened returning | E |
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| Come not to me | G |
| Bring not your body nearer | B |
| Though you overleapt the miles | H |
| I could not behold you clearer | B |
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| I could not clasp you | F |
| Than in my thought more surely | G |
| Breast to breast heart to heart | C |
| Might cling no more securely | G |
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| I do not know you | F |
| Seeing you more than unseeing | E |
| What you are that you are | I |
| Here in my spiritual being | E |
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| Leave me you cannot | J |
| Nor can I remove me | G |
| From the sevenfold dark fire | B |
| You have lit here since you love me | G |
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| Yet love unsure | K |
| No wilder could be burning | E |
| Come go come go | E |
| There's neither leaving nor returning | E |
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| Love me love me more | L |
| O not my heart shall quaver | B |
| If the dark fire more deep | M |
| Sinks and is sevenfold sevenfold graver | B |
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