Fate Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDDEEEFFGGHHIIJJK LJJJJMFMMNOPNGGJJJJQ GDDGJRRJJJ| That you are fair or wise is vain | A |
| Or strong or rich or generous | B |
| You must have also the untaught strain | A |
| That sheds beauty on the rose | C |
| There is 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 in 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 | M |
| Surely he carries a talisman | M |
| Under his tongue | N |
| Broad are his shoulders and strong | O |
| And his eye is scornful | P |
| Threatening and young | N |
| 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 drest | J |
| In the coarsest or in the best | J |
| Nor whether your name is base or brave | Q |
| Nor tor 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 | R |
| Dear to the Eumenides | R |
| 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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