Dæmonic Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGHHIIJJKKL L MNONOPQPRRSSTT FUEUVVRRIWXI IRYYIZA2B2C2C2D2B2B2 B2MB2 RRSSB2B2E2B2B2B2ARRJ B2JB2 IIF2F2G2H2G2I2SSJ2J2 K2L2M2RB2B2RRIISN2N2 L2SB2B2O2P2B2B2B2IB2 IL2B2B2L2Q2Q2B2B2R2S 2R2TRRB2B2RRRB2B2B2R TTN2TO2B2B2B2B2TTB2S B2TOOO2B2B2Man 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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