Forerunners Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCAADDEFAAAAAGAG HHIIJJKKLMJJAANNAA| LONG I followed happy guides | A |
| I could never reach their sides | A |
| Their step is forth and ere the day | B |
| Breaks up their leaguer and away | B |
| Keen my sense my heart was young | C |
| Right good will my sinews strung | C |
| But no speed of mine avails | A |
| To hunt upon their shining trails | A |
| On and away their hasting feet | D |
| Make the morning proud and sweet | D |
| Flowers they strew I catch the scent | E |
| Or tone of silver instrument | F |
| Leaves on the wind melodious trace | A |
| Yet I could never see their face | A |
| On eastern hills I see their smokes | A |
| Mixed with mist by distant lochs | A |
| I met many travellers | A |
| Who the road had surely kept | G |
| They saw not my fine revellers | A |
| These had crossed them while they slept | G |
| Some had heard their fair report | H |
| In the country or the court | H |
| Fleetest couriers alive | I |
| Never yet could once arrive | I |
| As they went or they returned | J |
| At the house where these sojourned | J |
| Sometimes their strong speed they slacken | K |
| Though they are not overtaken | K |
| In sleep their jubilant troop is near | L |
| I tuneful voices overhear | M |
| It may be in wood or waste | J |
| At unawares t is come and past | J |
| Their near camp my spirit knows | A |
| By signs gracious as rainbows | A |
| I thenceforward and long after | N |
| Listen for their harp like laughter | N |
| And carry in my heart for days | A |
| Peace that hallows rudest ways | A |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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