Fame Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDD EFGFHH DIDJKL MNMNOO PFPFOO| Ah Fate cannot a man | A |
| Be wise without a beard | B |
| East West from Beer to Dan | A |
| Say was it never heard | C |
| That wisdom might in youth be gotten | D |
| Or wit be ripe before 't was rotten | D |
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| He pays too high a price | E |
| For knowledge and for fame | F |
| Who sells his sinews to be wise | G |
| His teeth and bones to buy a name | F |
| And crawls through life a paralytic | H |
| To earn the praise of bard and critic | H |
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| Were it not better done | D |
| To dine and sleep through forty years | I |
| Be loved by few be feared by none | D |
| Laugh life away have wine for tears | J |
| And take the mortal leap undaunted | K |
| Content that all we asked was granted | L |
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| But Fate will not permit | M |
| The seed of gods to die | N |
| Nor suffer sense to win from wit | M |
| Its guerdon in the sky | N |
| Nor let us hide whate'er our pleasure | O |
| The world's light underneath a measure | O |
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| Go then sad youth and shine | P |
| Go sacrifice to Fame | F |
| Put youth joy health upon the shrine | P |
| And life to fan the flame | F |
| Being for Seeming bravely barter | O |
| And die to Fame a happy martyr | O |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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