Flame And Snow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BC DD EE FF GG HH II JJ KK LL JJ MM NN OO| The bare branches rose against the gray sky | A |
| Under them freshly fallen snow shone to the eye | A |
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| Up the hill slope over the brow it shone | B |
| Spreading an immaterial beauty to tread upon | C |
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| In the elbow of black boughs it clung nested white | D |
| And smooth below it slept in the solitude of its light | D |
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| It was deep to the knee in the hollow there in a stump of wood | E |
| I struck my bill hook warm to the fingers' blood and stood | E |
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| Pausing and breathed and listened all the air around | F |
| Was filled with busy strokes and ringing of clean sound | F |
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| And now and again a crack and a slow rending to tell | G |
| When a tree heavily tottered and swift with a crash fell | G |
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| I smelt the woody smell of smoke from the fire now | H |
| Beginning to spurt from frayed bracken and torn bough | H |
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| In the lee of a drift fed from our long morning toil | I |
| And sending smart to the eyes the smoke in a blue coil | I |
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| I lopped the twigs from a fresh cut pole and tossed it aside | J |
| To the stakes heaped beyond me and made a plunging stride | J |
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| And gathered twines of bramble and dead hazel sticks | K |
| And a faggot of twisted thorn with snow lumped in the pricks | K |
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| And piled the smoulder high Soon a blaze tore | L |
| Up through hissing boughs and shrivelling leaves from a core | L |
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| Of quivering crimson soon the heat burst and revelled | J |
| And apparitions of little airy flames dishevelled | J |
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| Gleamed and vanished a lost flight as of elfin wings | M |
| Trembling aloft to the wild music that Fire sings | M |
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| Dancing alive from nothing lovely and mad And still | N |
| The snow pale as a dream slept on the old hill | N |
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| Softly fallen and strange Which made me more to glow | O |
| Beauty of young flames or wonder of young snow | O |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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