Celestial Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEFGHFIIJKLMNNOO PPQQRSTS QLUQQQVWVXYXQZQA2A2Q QB2B2C2C2D2E2F2F2QQF 2F2G2G2QQQQLLH2H2I2I 2J2J2QQQQQQH2H2AAK2K 2MML2L2 M2M2N2N2F2F2QQQQO2O2 QQORP2P2Higher far | A |
Upward into the pure realm | B |
Over sun or star | A |
Over the flickering D mon film | C |
Thou must mount for love | D |
Into vision which all form | E |
In one only form dissolves | F |
In a region where the wheel | G |
On which all beings ride | H |
Visibly revolves | F |
Where the starred eternal worm | I |
Girds the world with bound and term | I |
Where unlike things are like | J |
When good and ill | K |
And joy and moan | L |
Melt into one | M |
There Past Present Future shoot | N |
Triple blossoms from one root | N |
Substances at base divided | O |
In their summits are united | O |
There the holy Essence rolls | P |
One through separated souls | P |
And the sunny on sleeps | Q |
Folding nature in its deeps | Q |
And every fair and every good | R |
Known in part or known impure | S |
To men below | T |
In their archetypes endure | S |
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The race of gods | Q |
Or those we erring own | L |
Are shadows flitting up and down | U |
In the still abodes | Q |
The circles of that sea are laws | Q |
Which publish and which hide the Cause | Q |
Pray for a beam | V |
Out of that sphere | W |
Thee to guide and to redeem | V |
O what a load | X |
Of care and toil | Y |
By lying Use bestowed | X |
From his shoulders falls who sees | Q |
The true astronomy | Z |
The period of peace | Q |
Counsel which the ages kept | A2 |
Shall the well born soul accept | A2 |
As the overhanging trees | Q |
Fill the lake with images | Q |
As garment draws the garment's hem | B2 |
Men their fortunes bring with them | B2 |
By right or wrong | C2 |
Lands and goods go to the strong | C2 |
Property will brutely draw | D2 |
Still to the proprietor | E2 |
Silver to silver creep and wind | F2 |
And kind to kind | F2 |
Nor less the eternal poles | Q |
Of tendency distribute souls | Q |
There need no vows to bind | F2 |
Whom not each other seek but find | F2 |
They give and take no pledge or oath | G2 |
Nature is the bond of both | G2 |
No prayer persuades no flattery fawns | Q |
Their noble meanings are their pawns | Q |
Plain and cold is their address | Q |
Power have they for tenderness | Q |
And so thoroughly is known | L |
Each others' purpose by his own | L |
They can parley without meeting | H2 |
Need is none of forms of greeting | H2 |
They can well communicate | I2 |
In their innermost estate | I2 |
When each the other shall avoid | J2 |
Shall each by each be most enjoyed | J2 |
Not with scarfs or perfumed gloves | Q |
Do these celebrate their loves | Q |
Not by jewels feasts and savors | Q |
Not by ribbons or by favors | Q |
But by the sun spark on the sea | Q |
And the cloud shadow on the lea | Q |
The soothing lapse of morn to mirk | H2 |
And the cheerful round of work | H2 |
Their cords of love so public are | A |
They intertwine the farthest star | A |
The throbbing sea the quaking earth | K2 |
Yield sympathy and signs of mirth | K2 |
Is none so high so mean is none | M |
But feels and seals this union | M |
Even the tell Furies are appeased | L2 |
The good applaud the lost are eased | L2 |
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Love's hearts are faithful but not fond | M2 |
Bound for the just but not beyond | M2 |
Not glad as the low loving herd | N2 |
Of self in others still preferred | N2 |
But they have heartily designed | F2 |
The benefit of broad mankind | F2 |
And they serve men austerely | Q |
After their own genius clearly | Q |
Without a false humility | Q |
For this is love's nobility | Q |
Not to scatter bread and gold | O2 |
Goods and raiment bought and sold | O2 |
But to hold fast his simple sense | Q |
And speak the speech of innocence | Q |
And with hand and body and blood | O |
To make his bosom counsel good | R |
For he that feeds men serveth few | P2 |
He serves all who dares be true | P2 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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