Dæmonic Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGHHIIJJKLM M NOPOPQRQSSTTUU FVEVWWSSIXYI ISZZIA2B2C2D2D2E2C2C 2C2NC2 LSTTC2C2F2C2C2C2ASSJ C2JC2 IIG2G2H2I2H2J2TTK2K2 L2M2N2SC2C2SSIITO2O2 M2TC2C2P2Q2C2C2C2IC2 IM2C2C2M2LLC2C2R2S2R 2USSC2C2SSSC2C2C2SUU O2UP2C2C2C2C2UUC2TC2 UPPP2C2C2Man 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 mdash | L |
Only two in the garden walked | M |
And with snake and seraph talked | M |
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But God said | N |
I will have a purer gift | O |
There is smoke in the flame | P |
New flowerets bring new prayers uplift | O |
And love without a name | P |
Fond children ye desire | Q |
To please each other well | R |
Another round a higher | Q |
Ye shall climb on the heavenly stair | S |
And selfish preference forbear | S |
And in right deserving | T |
And without a swerving | T |
Each from your proper state | U |
Weave roses for your mate | U |
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Deep deep are loving eyes | F |
Flowed with naphtha fiery sweet | V |
And the point is Paradise | E |
Where their glances meet | V |
Their reach shall yet be more profound | W |
And a vision without bound | W |
The axis of those eyes sun clear | S |
Be the axis of the sphere | S |
Then shall the lights ye pour amain | I |
Go without check or intervals | X |
Through from the empyrean walls | Y |
Unto the same again | I |
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Close close to men | I |
Like undulating layer of air | S |
Right above their heads | Z |
The potent plain of D aelig mons spreads | Z |
Stands to each human soul its own | I |
For watch and ward and furtherance | A2 |
In the snares of nature's dance | B2 |
And the lustre and the grace | C2 |
Which fascinate each human heart | D2 |
Beaming from another part | D2 |
Translucent through the mortal covers | E2 |
Is the D aelig mon's form and face | C2 |
To and fro the Genius hies | C2 |
A gleam which plays and hovers | C2 |
Over the maiden's head | N |
And dips sometimes as low as to her eyes | C2 |
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Unknown mdash albeit lying near mdash | L |
To men the path to the D aelig mon sphere | S |
And they that swiftly come and go | T |
Leave no track on the heavenly snow | T |
Sometimes the airy synod bends | C2 |
And the mighty choir descends | C2 |
And the brains of men thenceforth | F2 |
In crowded and in still resorts | C2 |
Teem with unwonted thoughts | C2 |
As when a shower of meteors | C2 |
Cross the orbit of the earth | A |
And lit by fringent air | S |
Blaze near and far | S |
Mortals deem the planets bright | J |
Have slipped their sacred bars | C2 |
And the lone seaman all the night | J |
Sails astonished amid stars | C2 |
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Beauty of a richer vein | I |
Graces of a subtler strain | I |
Unto men these moon men lend | G2 |
And our shrinking sky extend | G2 |
So is man's narrow path | H2 |
By strength and terror skirted | I2 |
Also from the song the wrath | H2 |
Of the Genii be averted | J2 |
The Muse the truth uncolored speaking | T |
The D aelig mons are self seeking | T |
Their fierce and limitary will | K2 |
Draws men to their likeness still | K2 |
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The erring painter made Love blind | L2 |
Highest Love who shines on all | M2 |
Him radiant sharpest sighted god | N2 |
None can bewilder | S |
Whose eyes pierce | C2 |
The Universe | C2 |
Path finder road builder | S |
Mediator royal giver | S |
Rightly seeing rightly seen | I |
Of joyful and transparent mien | I |
'Tis a sparkle passing | T |
From each to each from me to thee | O2 |
Perpetually | O2 |
Sharing all daring all | M2 |
Levelling misplacing | T |
Each obstruction it unites | C2 |
Equals remote and seeming opposites | C2 |
And ever and forever Love | P2 |
Delights to build a road | Q2 |
Unheeded Danger near him strides | C2 |
Love laughs and on a lion rides | C2 |
But Cupid wears another face | C2 |
Born into D aelig mons less divine | I |
His roses bleach apace | C2 |
His nectar smacks of wine | I |
The D aelig mon ever builds a wall | M2 |
Himself incloses and includes | C2 |
Solitude in solitudes | C2 |
In like sort his love doth fall | M2 |
He is an oligarch | L |
He prizes wonder fame and mark | L |
He loveth crowns | C2 |
He scorneth drones | C2 |
He doth elect | R2 |
The beautiful and fortunate | S2 |
And the sons of intellect | R2 |
And the souls of ample fate | U |
Who the Future's gates unbar | S |
Minions of the Morning Star | S |
In his prowess he exults | C2 |
And the multitude insults | C2 |
His impatient looks devour | S |
Oft the humble and the poor | S |
And seeing his eye glare | S |
They drop their few pale flowers | C2 |
Gathered with hope to please | C2 |
Along the mountain towers | C2 |
Lose courage and despair | S |
He will never be gainsaid | U |
Pitiless will not be stayed | U |
His hot tyranny | O2 |
Burns up every other tie | U |
Therefore comes an hour from Jove | P2 |
Which his ruthless will defies | C2 |
And the dogs of Fate unties | C2 |
Shiver the palaces of glass | C2 |
Shrivel the rainbow colored walls | C2 |
Where in bright art each god and sibyl dwelt | U |
Secure as in the Zodiack's belt | U |
And the galleries and halls | C2 |
Wherein every Siren sung | T |
Like a meteor pass | C2 |
For this fortune wanted root | U |
In the core of God's abysm | P |
Was a weed of self and schism | P |
And ever the D aelig monic Love | P2 |
Is the ancestor of wars | C2 |
And the parent of remorse | C2 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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