Beauty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEFGFBBGHIIJKLL MMNNOO| Was never form and never face | A |
| So sweet to SEYD as only grace | A |
| Which did not slumber like a stone | B |
| But hovered gleaming and was gone | C |
| Beauty chased he everywhere | D |
| In flame in storm in clouds of air | D |
| He smote the lake to feed his eye | E |
| With the beryl beam of the broken wave | F |
| He flung in pebbles well to hear | G |
| The moment's music which they gave | F |
| Oft pealed for him a lofty tone | B |
| From nodding pole and belting zone | B |
| He heard a voice none else could hear | G |
| From centred and from errant sphere | H |
| The quaking earth did quake in rhyme | I |
| Seas ebbed and flowed in epic chime | I |
| In dens of passion and pits of woe | J |
| He saw strong Eros struggling through | K |
| To sun the dark and solve the curse | L |
| And beam to the bounds of the universe | L |
| While thus to love he gave his days | M |
| In loyal worship scorning praise | M |
| How spread their lures for him in vain | N |
| Thieving Ambition and paltering Gain | N |
| He thought it happier to be dead | O |
| To die for Beauty than live for bread | O |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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