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 earthA
Child and brother from his birthA
Tethered by a liquid cordB
Of blood through veins of kindred pouredB
Next his heart the fireside bandC
Of mother father sister standC
Names from awful childhood heardD
Throbs of a wild religion stirredD
Their good was heaven their harm was viceE
Till Beauty came to snap all tiesF
The maid abolishing the pastG
With lotus wine obliteratesH
Dear memory's stone incarved traitsH
And by herself supplants aloneI
Friends year by year more inly knownI
When her calm eyes opened brightJ
All were foreign in their lightJ
It was ever the self same taleK
The old experience will not failK
Only two in the garden walkedL
And with snake and seraph talkedL
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But God saidM
I will have a purer giftN
There is smoke in the flameO
New flowerets bring new prayers upliftN
And love without a nameO
Fond children ye desireP
To please each other wellQ
Another round a higherP
Ye shall climb on the heavenly stairR
And selfish preference forbearR
And in right deservingS
And without a swervingS
Each from your proper stateT
Weave roses for your mateT
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Deep deep are loving eyesF
Flowed with naphtha fiery sweetU
And the point is ParadiseE
Where their glances meetU
Their reach shall yet be more profoundV
And a vision without boundV
The axis of those eyes sun clearR
Be the axis of the sphereR
Then shall the lights ye pour amainI
Go without check or intervalsW
Through from the empyrean wallsX
Unto the same againI
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Close close to menI
Like undulating layer of airR
Right above their headsY
The potent plain of D mons spreadsY
Stands to each human soul its ownI
For watch and ward and furtheranceZ
In the snares of nature's danceA2
And the lustre and the graceB2
Which fascinate each human heartC2
Beaming from another partC2
Translucent through the mortal coversD2
Is the D mon's form and faceB2
To and fro the Genius hiesB2
A gleam which plays and hoversB2
Over the maiden's headM
And dips sometimes as low as to her eyesB2
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Unknown albeit lying nearR
To men the path to the D mon sphereR
And they that swiftly come and goS
Leave no track on the heavenly snowS
Sometimes the airy synod bendsB2
And the mighty choir descendsB2
And the brains of men thenceforthE2
In crowded and in still resortsB2
Teem with unwonted thoughtsB2
As when a shower of meteorsB2
Cross the orbit of the earthA
And lit by fringent airR
Blaze near and farR
Mortals deem the planets brightJ
Have slipped their sacred barsB2
And the lone seaman all the nightJ
Sails astonished amid starsB2
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Beauty of a richer veinI
Graces of a subtler strainI
Unto men these moon men lendF2
And our shrinking sky extendF2
So is man's narrow pathG2
By strength and terror skirtedH2
Also from the song the wrathG2
Of the Genii be avertedI2
The Muse the truth uncolored speakingS
The D mons are self seekingS
Their fierce and limitary willJ2
Draws men to their likeness stillJ2
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The erring painter made Love blindK2
Highest Love who shines on allL2
Him radiant sharpest sighted godM2
None can bewilderR
Whose eyes pierceB2
The UniverseB2
Path finder road builderR
Mediator royal giverR
Rightly seeing rightly seenI
Of joyful and transparent mienI
'Tis a sparkle passingS
From each to each from me to theeN2
PerpetuallyN2
Sharing all daring allL2
Levelling misplacingS
Each obstruction it unitesB2
Equals remote and seeming oppositesB2
And ever and forever LoveO2
Delights to build a roadP2
Unheeded Danger near him stridesB2
Love laughs and on a lion ridesB2
But Cupid wears another faceB2
Born into D mons less divineI
His roses bleach apaceB2
His nectar smacks of wineI
The D mon ever builds a wallL2
Himself incloses and includesB2
Solitude in solitudesB2
In like sort his love doth fallL2
He is an oligarchQ2
He prizes wonder fame and markQ2
He loveth crownsB2
He scorneth dronesB2
He doth electR2
The beautiful and fortunateS2
And the sons of intellectR2
And the souls of ample fateT
Who the Future's gates unbarR
Minions of the Morning StarR
In his prowess he exultsB2
And the multitude insultsB2
His impatient looks devourR
Oft the humble and the poorR
And seeing his eye glareR
They drop their few pale flowersB2
Gathered with hope to pleaseB2
Along the mountain towersB2
Lose courage and despairR
He will never be gainsaidT
Pitiless will not be stayedT
His hot tyrannyN2
Burns up every other tieT
Therefore comes an hour from JoveO2
Which his ruthless will defiesB2
And the dogs of Fate untiesB2
Shiver the palaces of glassB2
Shrivel the rainbow colored wallsB2
Where in bright art each god and sibyl dweltT
Secure as in the Zodiack's beltT
And the galleries and hallsB2
Wherein every Siren sungS
Like a meteor passB2
For this fortune wanted rootT
In the core of God's abysmO
Was a weed of self and schismO
And ever the D monic LoveO2
Is the ancestor of warsB2
And the parent of remorseB2

Ralph Waldo Emerson



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