Dæmonic Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGHHIIJJKLM M NOPOPQRQSSTTUU FVEVWWSSIXYI ISZZIA2B2C2D2D2E2C2C 2C2NC2 LSTTC2C2F2C2C2C2ASSJ C2JC2 IIG2G2H2I2H2J2TTK2K2 L2M2N2SC2C2SSIITO2O2 M2TC2C2P2Q2C2C2C2IC2 IM2C2C2M2LLC2C2R2S2R 2USSC2C2SSSC2C2C2SUU O2UP2C2C2C2C2UUC2TC2 UPPP2C2C2

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 fail mdashL
Only two in the garden walkedM
And with snake and seraph talkedM
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But God saidN
I will have a purer giftO
There is smoke in the flameP
New flowerets bring new prayers upliftO
And love without a nameP
Fond children ye desireQ
To please each other wellR
Another round a higherQ
Ye shall climb on the heavenly stairS
And selfish preference forbearS
And in right deservingT
And without a swervingT
Each from your proper stateU
Weave roses for your mateU
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Deep deep are loving eyesF
Flowed with naphtha fiery sweetV
And the point is ParadiseE
Where their glances meetV
Their reach shall yet be more profoundW
And a vision without boundW
The axis of those eyes sun clearS
Be the axis of the sphereS
Then shall the lights ye pour amainI
Go without check or intervalsX
Through from the empyrean wallsY
Unto the same againI
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Close close to menI
Like undulating layer of airS
Right above their headsZ
The potent plain of D aelig mons spreadsZ
Stands to each human soul its ownI
For watch and ward and furtheranceA2
In the snares of nature's danceB2
And the lustre and the graceC2
Which fascinate each human heartD2
Beaming from another partD2
Translucent through the mortal coversE2
Is the D aelig mon's form and faceC2
To and fro the Genius hiesC2
A gleam which plays and hoversC2
Over the maiden's headN
And dips sometimes as low as to her eyesC2
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Unknown mdash albeit lying near mdashL
To men the path to the D aelig mon sphereS
And they that swiftly come and goT
Leave no track on the heavenly snowT
Sometimes the airy synod bendsC2
And the mighty choir descendsC2
And the brains of men thenceforthF2
In crowded and in still resortsC2
Teem with unwonted thoughtsC2
As when a shower of meteorsC2
Cross the orbit of the earthA
And lit by fringent airS
Blaze near and farS
Mortals deem the planets brightJ
Have slipped their sacred barsC2
And the lone seaman all the nightJ
Sails astonished amid starsC2
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Beauty of a richer veinI
Graces of a subtler strainI
Unto men these moon men lendG2
And our shrinking sky extendG2
So is man's narrow pathH2
By strength and terror skirtedI2
Also from the song the wrathH2
Of the Genii be avertedJ2
The Muse the truth uncolored speakingT
The D aelig mons are self seekingT
Their fierce and limitary willK2
Draws men to their likeness stillK2
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The erring painter made Love blindL2
Highest Love who shines on allM2
Him radiant sharpest sighted godN2
None can bewilderS
Whose eyes pierceC2
The UniverseC2
Path finder road builderS
Mediator royal giverS
Rightly seeing rightly seenI
Of joyful and transparent mienI
'Tis a sparkle passingT
From each to each from me to theeO2
PerpetuallyO2
Sharing all daring allM2
Levelling misplacingT
Each obstruction it unitesC2
Equals remote and seeming oppositesC2
And ever and forever LoveP2
Delights to build a roadQ2
Unheeded Danger near him stridesC2
Love laughs and on a lion ridesC2
But Cupid wears another faceC2
Born into D aelig mons less divineI
His roses bleach apaceC2
His nectar smacks of wineI
The D aelig mon ever builds a wallM2
Himself incloses and includesC2
Solitude in solitudesC2
In like sort his love doth fallM2
He is an oligarchL
He prizes wonder fame and markL
He loveth crownsC2
He scorneth dronesC2
He doth electR2
The beautiful and fortunateS2
And the sons of intellectR2
And the souls of ample fateU
Who the Future's gates unbarS
Minions of the Morning StarS
In his prowess he exultsC2
And the multitude insultsC2
His impatient looks devourS
Oft the humble and the poorS
And seeing his eye glareS
They drop their few pale flowersC2
Gathered with hope to pleaseC2
Along the mountain towersC2
Lose courage and despairS
He will never be gainsaidU
Pitiless will not be stayedU
His hot tyrannyO2
Burns up every other tieU
Therefore comes an hour from JoveP2
Which his ruthless will defiesC2
And the dogs of Fate untiesC2
Shiver the palaces of glassC2
Shrivel the rainbow colored wallsC2
Where in bright art each god and sibyl dweltU
Secure as in the Zodiack's beltU
And the galleries and hallsC2
Wherein every Siren sungT
Like a meteor passC2
For this fortune wanted rootU
In the core of God's abysmP
Was a weed of self and schismP
And ever the D aelig monic LoveP2
Is the ancestor of warsC2
And the parent of remorseC2

Ralph Waldo Emerson



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