Earth-song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCDEFG HIJKHJI LMCNK OKPP KPQRKP STUT| 'Mine and yours | A |
| Mine not yours | A |
| Earth endures | A |
| Stars abide | B |
| Shine down in the old sea | C |
| Old are the shores | D |
| But where are old men | E |
| I who have seen much | F |
| Such have I never seen | G |
| - | |
| 'The lawyer's deed | H |
| Ran sure | I |
| In tail | J |
| To them and to their heirs | K |
| Who shall succeed | H |
| Without fail | J |
| Forevermore | I |
| - | |
| 'Here is the land | L |
| Shaggy with wood | M |
| With its old valley | C |
| Mound and flood | N |
| But the heritors | K |
| - | |
| Fled like the flood's foam | O |
| The lawyer and the laws | K |
| And the kingdom | P |
| Clean swept herefrom | P |
| - | |
| 'They called me theirs | K |
| Who so controlled me | P |
| Yet every one | Q |
| Wished to stay and is gone | R |
| How am I theirs | K |
| If they cannot hold me | P |
| But I hold them ' | - |
| - | |
| When I heard the Earth song | S |
| I was no longer brave | T |
| My avarice cooled | U |
| Like lust in the chill of the grave | T |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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