Celestial Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEFGHFIIJKLMNNOO PPQQRSTS QLUQQQVWVXYXQZQA2A2Q QB2B2C2C2D2E2F2F2QQF 2F2G2G2QQQQLLH2H2I2I 2J2J2QQQQQQH2H2AAK2K 2MML2L2 M2M2N2N2F2F2QQQQO2O2 QQORP2P2| Higher 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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