Destiny Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDDEEEFFGGHHIIJJK LJJJJMFNNOPQOGGJJJJR GDDGJSSJJJThat you are fair or wise is vain | A |
Or strong or rich or generous | B |
You must add the untaught strain | A |
That sheds beauty on the rose | C |
There's a melody born of melody | D |
Which melts the world into a sea | D |
Toil could never compass it | E |
Art its height could never hit | E |
It came never out of wit | E |
But a music music born | F |
Well may Jove and Juno scorn | F |
Thy beauty if it lack the fire | G |
Which drives me mad with sweet desire | G |
What boots it What the soldier's mail | H |
Unless he conquer and prevail | H |
What all the goods thy pride which lift | I |
If thou pine for another's gift | I |
Alas that one is born in blight | J |
Victim of perpetual slight | J |
When thou lookest on his face | K |
Thy heart saith 'Brother go thy ways | L |
None shall ask thee what thou doest | J |
Or care a rush for what thou knowest | J |
Or listen when thou repliest | J |
Or remember where thou liest | J |
Or how thy supper is sodden ' | M |
And another is born | F |
To make the sun forgotten | N |
Surely he carries a talisman | N |
Under his tongue | O |
Broad his shoulders are and strong | P |
And his eye is scornful | Q |
Threatening and young | O |
I hold it of little matter | G |
Whether your jewel be of pure water | G |
A rose diamond or a white | J |
But whether it dazzle me with light | J |
I care not how you are dressed | J |
In coarsest weeds or in the best | J |
Nor whether your name is base or brave | R |
Nor for the fashion of your behavior | G |
But whether you charm me | D |
Bid my bread feed and my fire warm me | D |
And dress up Nature in your favor | G |
One thing is forever good | J |
That one thing is Success | S |
Dear to the Eumenides | S |
And to all the heavenly brood | J |
Who bides at home nor looks abroad | J |
Carries the eagles and masters the sword | J |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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