Exultation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEF GHB IJA AKL MEL NHK LEL JOP AQ QRB| BEHOLD I walked abroad at early morning | A |
| The fields of June were bathed in dew and lustre | B |
| The hills were clad with light as with a garment | C |
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| The inexpressible auroral freshness | D |
| The grave immutable aerial heavens | E |
| The transient clouds above the quiet landscape | F |
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| The heavy odor of the passionate lilacs | G |
| That hedged the road with sober colored clusters | H |
| All these o'ermastered me with subtle power | B |
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| And made my rural walk a royal progress | I |
| Peopled my solitude with airy spirits | J |
| Who hovered over me with joyous singing | A |
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| 'Behold ' they sang 'the glory of the morning | A |
| Through every vein does not the summer tingle | K |
| With vague desire and flush of expectation | L |
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| 'To think how fair is life set round with grandeur | M |
| The eloquent sea beneath the voiceless heavens | E |
| The shifting shows of every bounteous season | L |
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| 'Rich skies fantastic clouds and herby meadows | N |
| Gray rivers prairies spread with regal flowers | H |
| Grasses and grains and herds of browsing cattle | K |
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| 'Great cities filled with breathing men and women | L |
| Of whom the basest have their aspirations | E |
| High impulses of courage or affection | L |
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| 'And on this brave earth still those finer spirits | J |
| Heroic Valor admirable Friendship | O |
| And Love itself a very god among you | P |
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| 'All these for thee and thou evoked from nothing | A |
| Born from blank darkness to this blaze of beauty | Q |
| Where is thy faith and where are thy thanksgivings ' | - |
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| The world is his who can behold it rightly | Q |
| Who hears the harmonies of unseen angels | R |
| Above the senseless outcry of the hour | B |
Emma Lazarus
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