Astræ Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFGHHIIJJIIKKIIIIII LM IIBBNNOOPQIIRRQQSH| Himself it was who wrote | A |
| His rank and quartered his own coat | A |
| There is no king nor sovereign state | B |
| That can fix a hero's rate | B |
| Each to all is venerable | C |
| Cap a pie invulnerable | C |
| Until he write where all eyes rest | D |
| Slave or master on his breast | D |
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| I saw men go up and down | E |
| In the country and the town | E |
| With this prayer upon their neck | F |
| Judgment and a judge we seek | G |
| Not to monarchs they repair | H |
| Nor to learned jurist's chair | H |
| But they hurry to their peers | I |
| To their kinsfolk and their dears | I |
| Louder than with speech they pray | J |
| What am I companion say | J |
| And the friend not hesitates | I |
| To assign just place and mates | I |
| Answers not in word or letter | K |
| Yet is understood the better | K |
| Is to his friend a looking glass | I |
| Reflects his figure that doth pass | I |
| Every wayfarer he meets | I |
| What himself declared repeats | I |
| What himself confessed records | I |
| Sentences him in his words | I |
| The form is his own corporal form | L |
| And his thought the penal worm | M |
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| Yet shine for ever virgin minds | I |
| Loved by stars and purest winds | I |
| Which o'er passion throned sedate | B |
| Have not hazarded their state | B |
| Disconcert the searching spy | N |
| Rendering to a curious eye | N |
| The durance of a granite ledge | O |
| To those who gaze from the sea's edge | O |
| It is there for benefit | P |
| It is there for purging light | Q |
| There for purifying storms | I |
| And its depths reflect all forms | I |
| It cannot parley with the mean | R |
| Pure by impure is not seen | R |
| For there's no sequestered grot | Q |
| Lone mountain tam or isle forgot | Q |
| But justice journeying in the sphere | S |
| Daily stoops to harbor there | H |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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