Herba Santa Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDCEF ADDGHGH IJIJDKD ADLDDL KDFME KNNK COPQ DDDDD KOQGDDDD KRSTBSUB| I | A |
| After long wars when comes release | B |
| Not olive wands proclaiming peace | B |
| Can import dearer share | C |
| Than stems of Herba Santa hazed | D |
| In autumn's Indian air | C |
| Of moods they breathe that care disarm | E |
| They pledge us lenitive and calm | F |
| - | |
| II | A |
| Shall code or creed a lure afford | D |
| To win all selves to Love's accord | D |
| When Love ordained a supper divine | G |
| For the wide world of man | H |
| What bickerings o'er his gracious wine | G |
| Then strange new feuds began | H |
| - | |
| Effectual more in lowlier way | I |
| Pacific Herb thy sensuous plea | J |
| The bristling clans of Adam sway | I |
| At least to fellowship in thee | J |
| Before thine altar tribal flags are furled | D |
| Fain wouldst thou make one hearthstone of | K |
| the world | D |
| - | |
| III | A |
| To scythe to sceptre pen and hod | D |
| Yea sodden laborers dumb | L |
| To brains overplied to feet that plod | D |
| In solace of the Truce of God | D |
| The Calumet has come | L |
| - | |
| IV | K |
| Ah for the world ere Raleigh's find | D |
| Never that knew this suasive balm | F |
| That helps when Gilead's fails to heal | M |
| Helps by an interserted charm | E |
| - | |
| Insinuous thou that through the nerve | K |
| Windest the soul and so canst win | N |
| Some from repinings some from sin | N |
| The Church's aim thou dost subserve | K |
| - | |
| The ruffled fag fordone with care | C |
| And brooding God would ease this pain | O |
| Him soothest thou and smoothest down | P |
| Till some content return again | Q |
| - | |
| Even ruffians feel thy influence breed | D |
| Saint Martin's summer in the mind | D |
| They feel this last evangel plead | D |
| As did the first apart from creed | D |
| Be peaceful man be kind | D |
| - | |
| V | K |
| Rejected once on higher plain | O |
| O Love supreme to come again | Q |
| Can this be thine | G |
| Again to come and win us too | D |
| In likeness of a weed | D |
| That as a god didst vainly woo | D |
| As man more vainly bleed | D |
| - | |
| VI | K |
| Forbear my soul and in thine Eastern | R |
| chamber | S |
| Rehearse the dream that brings the long | T |
| release | B |
| Through jasmine sweet and talismanic amber | S |
| Inhaling Herba Santa in the passive Pipe | U |
| of Peace | B |
Herman Melville
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