Pictures In The Fire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHIH JKLK MNMN OGOG| The wind croons under the icicled eaves | A |
| Croons and mutters a wordless song | B |
| And the old elm chafes its skeleton leaves | A |
| Against the windows all night long | B |
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| Under the spectral garden wall | C |
| The drifts creep steadily high and higher | D |
| And the lamp in the cottage lattice small | C |
| Twinkles and winks like an eye of fire | D |
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| But I see a vision of summer skies | E |
| Growing out of the embers red | F |
| Under the lids of my half shut eyes | E |
| With my arms crossed idly under my head | F |
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| I see a stile and a roadside lime | G |
| With buttercups growing about its feet | H |
| And a footpath winding a sinuous line | I |
| In and out of the billowy wheat | H |
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| For long ago in the summer noons | J |
| Under the shade of that trysting tree | K |
| My love brought wheat ears and clover blooms | L |
| And vows that were sweeter than both to me | K |
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| Reading the Times in his easy chair | M |
| With his slippered feet on the fender bright | N |
| Little I wot he dreams how fair | M |
| Are the pictures I see in the fire to night | N |
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| Still the wind pipes under the serried spears | O |
| Of frozen boughs a desolate rhyme | G |
| But I hear the rustle of golden ears | O |
| And in my heart it is summer time | G |
Kate Seymour Maclean
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