Candles Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBC BDBEB FGHEB BGIJE GKBBG GLGMB BEBNF| They are the last romantics these candles | A |
| Upside down hearts of light tipping wax fingers | B |
| And the fingers taken in by their own haloes | B |
| Grown milky almost clear like the bodies of saints | B |
| It is touching the way they'll ignore | C |
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| A whole family of prominent objects | B |
| Simply to plumb the deeps of an eye | D |
| In its hollow of shadows its fringe of reeds | B |
| And the owner past thirty no beauty at all | E |
| Daylight would be more judicious | B |
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| Giving everybody a fair hearing | F |
| They should have gone out with the balloon flights and the stereopticon | G |
| This is no time for the private point of view | H |
| When I light them my nostrils prickle | E |
| Their pale tentative yellows | B |
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| Drag up false Edwardian sentiments | B |
| And I remember my maternal grandmother from Vienna | G |
| As a schoolgirl she gave roses to Franz Josef | I |
| The burghers sweated and wept The children wore white | J |
| And my grandfather moped in the Tyrol | E |
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| Imagining himself a headwaiter in America | G |
| Floating in a high church hush | K |
| Among ice buckets frosty napkins | B |
| These little globes of light are sweet as pears | B |
| Kindly with invalids and mawkish women | G |
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| They mollify the bald moon | G |
| Nun souled they burn heavenward and never marry | L |
| The eyes of the child I nurse are scarcely open | G |
| In twenty years I shall be retrograde | M |
| As these drafty ephemerids | B |
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| I watch their spilt tears cloud and dull to pearls | B |
| How shall I tell anything at all | E |
| To this infant still in a birth drowse | B |
| Tonight like a shawl the mild light enfolds her | N |
| The shadows stoop over the guests at a christening | F |
Sylvia Plath
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