Vestal Flame Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA CDC EFE GHG IJK LML NON PC QRQ ST UVU GWG JXJ GYG ZZZ A2P FYP FH ZC| Light light the last | A |
| Till the night be done | B |
| Keep the watch for stars and sun and eyelids over cast | A |
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| Once there seemed a sky | C |
| Brooding over men | D |
| Now no stars have come again since their bright good bye | C |
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| Once my dreams were wise | E |
| Now I nothing know | F |
| Fasting and the dark have so put out my heart's eyes | E |
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| But thy golden breath | G |
| Burns against my cheek | H |
| I can feel and love and seek all the rune it saith | G |
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| Do not thou be spent | I |
| Holy thing of fire | J |
| Only hope of heart's desire dulled with wonderment | K |
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| While there bide these two | L |
| Hands to bar the wind | M |
| Though such fingers chill and thinned shed no roses through | L |
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| While this body bends | N |
| Only for thy guard | O |
| Like a tower to ward and worship all the light it sends | N |
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| It is not for fear | P |
| Lest there ring some cry | C |
| On the midnight 'Rise and come Lo the Bridegroom near ' | - |
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| It is not for pride | Q |
| To be shining fair | R |
| In a wedding garment there lighting home the Bride | Q |
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| It is not to win | S |
| Love for hoarded toil | T |
| From those poor with their spent oil weeping 'Light us in ' | - |
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| No but in despite | U |
| Of all vigils set | V |
| Do I bind me to thee yet strangest thing of Light | U |
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| Only all for thee | G |
| Whatsoe'er thou art | W |
| Smiling through the blinded heart things it cannot see | G |
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| Very Soul's Desire | J |
| Take my life and live | X |
| By the rapture thine doth give ecstasy of fire | J |
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| Hold thy golden breath | G |
| For I feel not hear | Y |
| Spent with joy and fear to lose thee all the song it saith | G |
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| Light light my own | Z |
| Do not thou disown | Z |
| Thy poor keeper of the light for Light's sake alone | Z |
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| The dark had left no speech save hand in hand | A2 |
| Between us two the while with others near | P |
| Mine questioned thine with 'Why should I be here ' | - |
| 'Yet bide thou here ' said thine 'and understand ' | - |
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| And mine was mute but strove not then to go | F |
| And hid itself and murmured 'Do not hear | Y |
| The listening in my heart ' Said thine 'My Dear | P |
| I will not hear it ever But I know ' | - |
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| Said mine to thine 'Let be Now will I go | F |
| For you are saying you who do not speak | H |
| This hand in hand is one day cheek to cheek ' | - |
| And said thy hand around me 'Even so ' | - |
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| Then mine to thine 'Yea I have been alone | Z |
| Yet happy This is strange This is not I | C |
| You hold me but you can not tell me why ' | - |
| And said thy hand to mine again 'My Own ' | - |
Josephine Preston Peabody
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