The Fire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEBFGHI FABGA| The old men of the world have made a fire | A |
| To warm their trembling hands | B |
| They poke the young men in | C |
| The young men burn like withes | B |
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| If one run a little way | D |
| The old men are wrath | E |
| They catch him and bind him and throw him again to the flames | B |
| Green withes burn slow | F |
| And the smoke of the young men's torment | G |
| Rises round and sheer as the trunk of a pillared oak | H |
| And the darkness thereof spreads over the sky | I |
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| Green withes burn slow | F |
| And the old men of the world sit round the fire | A |
| And rub their hands | B |
| But the smoke of the young men's torment | G |
| Ascends up for ever and ever | A |
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