The Scare-fire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD| Water water I desire | A |
| Here's a house of flesh on fire | A |
| Ope the fountains and the springs | B |
| And come all to bucketings | B |
| What ye cannot quench pull down | C |
| Spoil a house to save a town | C |
| Better 'tis that one should fall | D |
| Than by one to hazard all | D |
Robert Herrick
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