In The Firelight Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGE HIHIGJJG BKLKMNNO PQPQKRAK STUTJVVJ WXWXYZZY A2B2A2B2TC2C2T| My dear wife sits beside the fire | A |
| With folded hands and dreaming eyes | B |
| Watching the restless flames aspire | C |
| And wrapped in thralling memories | D |
| I mark the fitful firelight fling | E |
| Its warm caresses on her brow | F |
| And kiss her hands' unmelting snow | G |
| And glisten on her wedding ring | E |
| - | |
| The proud free head that crowns so well | H |
| The neck superb whose outlines glide | I |
| Into the bosom's perfect swell | H |
| Soft billowed by its peaceful tide | I |
| The cheek's faint flush the lip's red glow | G |
| The gracious charm her beauty wears | J |
| Fill my fond eyes with tender tears | J |
| As in the days of long ago | G |
| - | |
| Days long ago when in her eyes | B |
| The only heaven I cared for lay | K |
| When from our thoughtless Paradise | L |
| All care and toil dwelt far away | K |
| When Hope in wayward fancies throve | M |
| And rioted in secret sweets | N |
| Beguiled by Passion's dear deceits | N |
| The mysteries of maiden love | O |
| - | |
| One year had passed since first my sight | P |
| Was gladdened by her girlish charms | Q |
| When on a rapturous summer night | P |
| I clasped her in possessing arms | Q |
| And now ten years have rolled away | K |
| And left such blessings as their dower | R |
| I owe her tenfold at this hour | A |
| The love that lit our wedding day | K |
| - | |
| For now vague hovering o'er her form | S |
| My fancy sees by love refined | T |
| A warmer and a dearer charm | U |
| By wedlock's mystic hands intwined | T |
| golden coil of wifely cares | J |
| That years have forged the loving joy | V |
| That guards the curly headed boy | V |
| Asleep an hour ago up stairs | J |
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| A fair young mother pure as fair | W |
| A matron heart and virgin soul | X |
| The flickering light that crowns her hair | W |
| Seems like a saintly aureole | X |
| A tender sense upon me falls | Y |
| That joy unmerited is mine | Z |
| And in this pleasant twilight shine | Z |
| My perfect bliss myself appalls | Y |
| - | |
| Come back my darling strayed so far | A2 |
| Into the realm of fantasy | B2 |
| Let thy dear face shine like a star | A2 |
| In love light beaming over me | B2 |
| My melting soul is jealous sweet | T |
| Of thy long silence' drear eclipse | C2 |
| O kiss me back with living lips | C2 |
| To life love lying at thy feet | T |
John Hay
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