The Crucible Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAABCDDCEFEFGGHIHCI CJJCCKCK LMMMLNNN| Because thou camest Love to break | A |
| The strong mould of this world in two | B |
| And of the senseless fragments take | A |
| And in thy mighty music make | A |
| A world more wondrous and more true | B |
| Now my soul hath taken wings | C |
| Newly bathed in light intense | D |
| And purging off the film of sense | D |
| Of its native glory sings | C |
| And that inward vision turning | E |
| Pomps of earth to vapour brief | F |
| Sees as in a furnace burning | E |
| Time a swiftly shrivelled leaf | F |
| Sees the fortressed city fall | G |
| To a mound of nameless wall | G |
| Shrining temple columned porch | H |
| Life bought gems and royal gold | I |
| Shake like ashes from a torch | H |
| Palaces world envied thrones | C |
| Crumble down to dust as old | I |
| And idle as Behemoth's bones | C |
| On a frozen mountain top | J |
| I see the very mountains drop | J |
| Wasting with their weight of stones | C |
| Swifter than a torrent slides | C |
| Melted like the crimson cloud | K |
| Vanishing about their sides | C |
| When the morn has burst his shroud | K |
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| Love Love because thou didst destroy | L |
| So much and madest so much vain | M |
| I know what lives and shall remain | M |
| I see amid Time's gorgeous wane | M |
| The dawn and promise of my joy | L |
| O lift me thither lift me higher | N |
| I am not save in this desire | N |
| Lost and living fire in fire | N |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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