Astræ Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFDGGHHIIHHJKHHHHHH LM HHDDNNOODDHHPPDDQGHimself 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 |
quot Judgment and a judge we seek quot | D |
Not to monarchs they repair | G |
Nor to learned jurist's chair | G |
But they hurry to their peers | H |
To their kinsfolk and their dears | H |
Louder than with speech they pray | I |
What am I companion say | I |
And the friend not hesitates | H |
To assign just place and mates | H |
Answers not in word or letter | J |
Yet is understood the better mdash | K |
Is to his friend a looking glass | H |
Reflects his figure that doth pass | H |
Every wayfarer he meets | H |
What himself declared repeats | H |
What himself confessed records | H |
Sentences him in his words | H |
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 | H |
Loved by stars and purest winds | H |
Which o'er passion throned sedate | D |
Have not hazarded their state | D |
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 | D |
It is there for purging light | D |
There for purifying storms | H |
And its depths reflect all forms | H |
It cannot parley with the mean | P |
Pure by impure is not seen | P |
For there's no sequestered grot | D |
Lone mountain tam or isle forgot | D |
But justice journeying in the sphere | Q |
Daily stoops to harbor there | G |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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