Dæmonic Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGHHIIJJKKL L MNONOPQPRRSSTT FUEUVVRRIWXI IRYYIZA2B2C2C2D2B2B2 B2MB2 RRSSB2B2E2B2B2B2ARRJ B2JB2 IIF2F2G2H2G2I2SSJ2J2 K2L2M2RB2B2RRIISN2N2 L2SB2B2O2P2B2B2B2IB2 IL2B2B2L2Q2Q2B2B2R2S 2R2TRRB2B2RRRB2B2B2R TTN2TO2B2B2B2B2TTB2S B2TOOO2B2B2| Man was made of social earth | A |
| Child and brother from his birth | A |
| Tethered by a liquid cord | B |
| Of blood through veins of kindred poured | B |
| Next his heart the fireside band | C |
| Of mother father sister stand | C |
| Names from awful childhood heard | D |
| Throbs of a wild religion stirred | D |
| Their good was heaven their harm was vice | E |
| Till Beauty came to snap all ties | F |
| The maid abolishing the past | G |
| With lotus wine obliterates | H |
| Dear memory's stone incarved traits | H |
| And by herself supplants alone | I |
| Friends year by year more inly known | I |
| When her calm eyes opened bright | J |
| All were foreign in their light | J |
| It was ever the self same tale | K |
| The old experience will not fail | K |
| Only two in the garden walked | L |
| And with snake and seraph talked | L |
| - | |
| But God said | M |
| I will have a purer gift | N |
| There is smoke in the flame | O |
| New flowerets bring new prayers uplift | N |
| And love without a name | O |
| Fond children ye desire | P |
| To please each other well | Q |
| Another round a higher | P |
| Ye shall climb on the heavenly stair | R |
| And selfish preference forbear | R |
| And in right deserving | S |
| And without a swerving | S |
| Each from your proper state | T |
| Weave roses for your mate | T |
| - | |
| Deep deep are loving eyes | F |
| Flowed with naphtha fiery sweet | U |
| And the point is Paradise | E |
| Where their glances meet | U |
| Their reach shall yet be more profound | V |
| And a vision without bound | V |
| The axis of those eyes sun clear | R |
| Be the axis of the sphere | R |
| Then shall the lights ye pour amain | I |
| Go without check or intervals | W |
| Through from the empyrean walls | X |
| Unto the same again | I |
| - | |
| Close close to men | I |
| Like undulating layer of air | R |
| Right above their heads | Y |
| The potent plain of D mons spreads | Y |
| Stands to each human soul its own | I |
| For watch and ward and furtherance | Z |
| In the snares of nature's dance | A2 |
| And the lustre and the grace | B2 |
| Which fascinate each human heart | C2 |
| Beaming from another part | C2 |
| Translucent through the mortal covers | D2 |
| Is the D mon's form and face | B2 |
| To and fro the Genius hies | B2 |
| A gleam which plays and hovers | B2 |
| Over the maiden's head | M |
| And dips sometimes as low as to her eyes | B2 |
| - | |
| Unknown albeit lying near | R |
| To men the path to the D mon sphere | R |
| And they that swiftly come and go | S |
| Leave no track on the heavenly snow | S |
| Sometimes the airy synod bends | B2 |
| And the mighty choir descends | B2 |
| And the brains of men thenceforth | E2 |
| In crowded and in still resorts | B2 |
| Teem with unwonted thoughts | B2 |
| As when a shower of meteors | B2 |
| Cross the orbit of the earth | A |
| And lit by fringent air | R |
| Blaze near and far | R |
| Mortals deem the planets bright | J |
| Have slipped their sacred bars | B2 |
| And the lone seaman all the night | J |
| Sails astonished amid stars | B2 |
| - | |
| Beauty of a richer vein | I |
| Graces of a subtler strain | I |
| Unto men these moon men lend | F2 |
| And our shrinking sky extend | F2 |
| So is man's narrow path | G2 |
| By strength and terror skirted | H2 |
| Also from the song the wrath | G2 |
| Of the Genii be averted | I2 |
| The Muse the truth uncolored speaking | S |
| The D mons are self seeking | S |
| Their fierce and limitary will | J2 |
| Draws men to their likeness still | J2 |
| - | |
| The erring painter made Love blind | K2 |
| Highest Love who shines on all | L2 |
| Him radiant sharpest sighted god | M2 |
| None can bewilder | R |
| Whose eyes pierce | B2 |
| The Universe | B2 |
| Path finder road builder | R |
| Mediator royal giver | R |
| Rightly seeing rightly seen | I |
| Of joyful and transparent mien | I |
| 'Tis a sparkle passing | S |
| From each to each from me to thee | N2 |
| Perpetually | N2 |
| Sharing all daring all | L2 |
| Levelling misplacing | S |
| Each obstruction it unites | B2 |
| Equals remote and seeming opposites | B2 |
| And ever and forever Love | O2 |
| Delights to build a road | P2 |
| Unheeded Danger near him strides | B2 |
| Love laughs and on a lion rides | B2 |
| But Cupid wears another face | B2 |
| Born into D mons less divine | I |
| His roses bleach apace | B2 |
| His nectar smacks of wine | I |
| The D mon ever builds a wall | L2 |
| Himself incloses and includes | B2 |
| Solitude in solitudes | B2 |
| In like sort his love doth fall | L2 |
| He is an oligarch | Q2 |
| He prizes wonder fame and mark | Q2 |
| He loveth crowns | B2 |
| He scorneth drones | B2 |
| He doth elect | R2 |
| The beautiful and fortunate | S2 |
| And the sons of intellect | R2 |
| And the souls of ample fate | T |
| Who the Future's gates unbar | R |
| Minions of the Morning Star | R |
| In his prowess he exults | B2 |
| And the multitude insults | B2 |
| His impatient looks devour | R |
| Oft the humble and the poor | R |
| And seeing his eye glare | R |
| They drop their few pale flowers | B2 |
| Gathered with hope to please | B2 |
| Along the mountain towers | B2 |
| Lose courage and despair | R |
| He will never be gainsaid | T |
| Pitiless will not be stayed | T |
| His hot tyranny | N2 |
| Burns up every other tie | T |
| Therefore comes an hour from Jove | O2 |
| Which his ruthless will defies | B2 |
| And the dogs of Fate unties | B2 |
| Shiver the palaces of glass | B2 |
| Shrivel the rainbow colored walls | B2 |
| Where in bright art each god and sibyl dwelt | T |
| Secure as in the Zodiack's belt | T |
| And the galleries and halls | B2 |
| Wherein every Siren sung | S |
| Like a meteor pass | B2 |
| For this fortune wanted root | T |
| In the core of God's abysm | O |
| Was a weed of self and schism | O |
| And ever the D monic Love | O2 |
| Is the ancestor of wars | B2 |
| And the parent of remorse | B2 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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