The Flaming Heart Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIFFEE JJHHKKEELLFFMM| A | |
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| O heart the equal poise of love's both parts | B |
| Big alike with wounds and darts | B |
| Live in these conquering leaves live all the same | C |
| And walk through all tongues one triumphant flame | C |
| Live here great heart and love and die and kill | D |
| And bleed and wound and yield and conquer still | D |
| Let this immortal life where'er it comes | E |
| Walk in a crowd of loves and martyrdoms | E |
| Let mystic deaths wait on 't and wise souls be | F |
| The love slain witnesses of this life of thee | F |
| O sweet incendiary show here thy art | G |
| Upon this carcass of a hard cold heart | G |
| Let all thy scatter'd shafts of light that play | H |
| Among the leaves of thy large books of day | H |
| Combin'd against this breast at once break in | I |
| And take away from me my self and sin | I |
| This gracious robbery shall thy bounty be | F |
| And my best fortunes such fair spoils of me | F |
| O thou undaunted daughter of desires | E |
| By all thy dow'r of lights and fires | E |
| By all the eagle in thee all the dove | J |
| By all thy lives and deaths of love | J |
| By thy large draughts of intellectual day | H |
| And by thy thirsts of love more large than they | H |
| By all thy brim fill'd bowls of fierce desire | K |
| By thy last morning's draught of liquid fire | K |
| By the full kingdom of that final kiss | E |
| That seiz'd thy parting soul and seal'd thee his | E |
| By all the heav'ns thou hast in him | L |
| Fair sister of the seraphim | L |
| By all of him we have in thee | F |
| Leave nothing of my self in me | F |
| Let me so read thy life that I | M |
| Unto all life of mine may die | M |
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Richard Crashaw
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