The Fire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBADE FGFGHIJJK LMLMNNOPPQRRSSCETUFU UFMAQQMVMMVMMUMMWMMQ MXMMMMQXYZYJJZJ A2A2WWMMWB2B2W| With beckoning fingers bright | A |
| In heaven uplifted from the darkness wakes | B |
| Upon a sudden radiant Fire | C |
| And out of slumber shakes | B |
| Her wild hair to the night | A |
| Bewitching all to run with hurried feet | D |
| And stand and gaze upon her beauty dire | E |
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| For her the shrinking gloom | F |
| Yields and a place prepares | G |
| An ample scene and a majestic room | F |
| Slowly the river bares | G |
| His bank above in endless tier | H |
| Glittering out of the night the windows come | I |
| To that bright summons and at last appear | J |
| Hovering enkindled and unearthly clear | J |
| Steeple and tower and the suspended dome | K |
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| But whence are these that haste | L |
| So rapt What throngs along the street that press | M |
| Raised by enchantment from the midnight waste | L |
| That even now was sleeping echoless | M |
| Men without number lured from near and far | N |
| As by a world portending star | N |
| Lo on the bright bank without interval | O |
| Faces in murmuring line | P |
| With earnest eyes that shine | P |
| Across the stream gaze ever on the wall | Q |
| Faces and dense along the bridge's side | R |
| Uncounted faces softly the wheels glide | R |
| Approaching lest they break the burning hush | S |
| Of all that multitude aflush | S |
| With secret strange desire | C |
| Warm in the great light as themselves afire | E |
| Thousands are gazing and all silently | T |
| How to the throbbing glare their hearts reply | U |
| As tossing upward a dim sparkled plume | F |
| The beautiful swift Fury scares the sky | U |
| The stars look changed on high | U |
| And red the steeples waver from the gloom | F |
| Distantly clear over the water swells | M |
| The roar the iron stanchions dribble bright | A |
| And faltering with strong quiver to its fall | Q |
| Drops slowly rushing the great outer wall | Q |
| From lip to lip a wondering murmur goes | M |
| As crouching a dark moment o'er its prey | V |
| Swiftly again upleaps | M |
| The wild flame and exulting madly glows | M |
| The city burns in an enchanted day | V |
| Still the great throng impassioned silence keeps | M |
| Like an adoring host in ecstasy | M |
| Did ever vision of the opened sky | U |
| Entrance more deeply or did ever voice | M |
| Of a just wrath more terribly rejoice | M |
| The houseless beggar gazing has forgot | W |
| His hunger happy lovers' hands relax | M |
| They look no more into each others' eyes | M |
| Wrapt in its mother's shawl | Q |
| The fretting child no longer cries | M |
| And that soul piercing flame | X |
| Melts out like wax | M |
| The prosperous schemer's busy schemes | M |
| The reveller like a visionary gleams | M |
| An aged wandering pair lift up their heads | M |
| Out of old memories to each to all | Q |
| Time and the strong world are no more the same | X |
| But threatened perishable trembling brief | Y |
| Even as themselves an instant might destroy | Z |
| With all the builded weight of years and grief | Y |
| All that old hope and pleasant usage dear | J |
| Glories and dooms before their eyes appear | J |
| Upon their faces joy | Z |
| Within their bosoms fear | J |
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| Is it that even now | A2 |
| In all O radiant Desolation thou | A2 |
| Far off prefigurest | W |
| To each obscurely wounded breast | W |
| The dream of what shall be | M |
| And in their hearts they see | M |
| Rushing in ardent ruin out of sight | W |
| With all her splendour with her streaming robe | B2 |
| Of seas and her pale peoples the vast globe | B2 |
| A sullen ember crumble into night | W |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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