When Prometheus Stole The Flame Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIGGJJ CCKKLL BBMMNNDDOOPQRRSSTTBB UUVVLL Q W XXYY ZZGGJJA2A2B2B2C2C2 D2D2B2B2| From Arthur Selwyn's Note book | A |
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| When Prometheus stole the flame | B |
| Did he know what with it came | B |
| Did he look afar and see | C |
| All the blessings that would be | C |
| Could he view the gentle gloam | D |
| Of the fireside of a home | D |
| Or the centre table's blaze | E |
| Turning evenings into days | E |
| Where encamped with quiet zest | F |
| Happy children toil and rest | F |
| Did he view the parlor's gleam | G |
| Or the 'wildering palace dream | G |
| See the torch's floating glare | H |
| Burn its way through walls of air | H |
| Or through under regions trace | I |
| Earth's remotest hiding place | I |
| Did he see the flags of steam | G |
| O'er the cities flash and gleam | G |
| To his vision like a star | J |
| Did the light house gleam afar | J |
| Which another eye should be | C |
| To the traveller of the sea | C |
| If Prometheus tortured bound | K |
| Knew the blessings man had found | K |
| Then his sufferings must have been | L |
| Soothed by blessings from within | L |
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| When Prometheus stole the flame | B |
| Did he know what with it came | B |
| Did he see the fire up steal | M |
| Rise and take its midnight meal | M |
| Did he view the palace wall | N |
| Stumble 'mid the smoke and fall | N |
| Did he see some cherished home | D |
| Feed a fiery ocean's foam | D |
| Did he hear the war alarms | O |
| Of a nation called to arms | O |
| And behold men in their ire | P |
| Murdering men with bolts of fire | Q |
| Did some miscreant cross his sight | R |
| Bent on booty or on spite | R |
| Stealing steps into the dark | S |
| With the incendiary spark | S |
| Did there faint and haggard rise | T |
| Ghosts before his startled eyes | T |
| Godly men of scathless name | B |
| Felled for fuel to the flame | B |
| In a short lived earthly hell | U |
| Thrown for voicing heaven too well | U |
| If he knew that glittering thing | V |
| Would to Earth such curses bring | V |
| Then his sufferings may have been | L |
| Edged with poison from within | L |
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| From Farmer Harrington's Calendar | Q |
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| MARCH | W |
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| Somehow the fire I saw not long ago | X |
| Has subsequently chased me high and low | X |
| Runs back and forth betwixt my head and heart | Y |
| And shows no disposition to depart | Y |
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| And so I've wandered 'round too much perhaps | Z |
| And got acquainted with the fireman chaps | Z |
| And planted good cigars where they would seem | G |
| Inclined to grow up helpful to my scheme | G |
| I never smoke but travelling near and far | J |
| There's few things help one like a good cigar | J |
| When safe between a neighbor's teeth 'tis hung | A2 |
| It oils his ways and loosens up his tongue | A2 |
| I get more from cigars before it's through | B2 |
| Than all the fellows that I give them to | B2 |
| Perhaps they should not smoke but if they will | C2 |
| My method helps their families foot the bill | C2 |
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| Not long ago a sturdy fireman lad | D2 |
| Who smoked up every last cigar I had | D2 |
| Unrolled the following story to my view | B2 |
| Which I believe conditionally true | B2 |
William Mckendree Carleton
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