Fragments On Nature And Life - Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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A train of gay and clouded daysA
Dappled with joy and grief and praiseA
Beauty to fire us saints to saveB
Escort us to a little graveB
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No fate save by the victim's fault is lowC
For God hath writ all dooms magnificentD
So guilt not traverses his tender willE
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Around the man who seeks a noble endF
Not angels but divinities attendF
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From high to higher forcesG
The scale of power uprearsG
The heroes on their horsesG
The gods upon their spheresG
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This shining moment is an edificeG
Which the Omnipotent cannot rebuildH
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Roomy EternityI
Casts her schemes rarelyI
And an aeon allowsG
For each quality and partJ
Of the multitudinousG
And many chambered heartJ
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The beggar begs by God's commandK
And gifts awake when givers sleepL
Swords cannot cut the giving handK
Nor stab the love that orphans keepL
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In the chamber on the stairsG
Lurking dumbM
Go and comeM
Lemurs and LarsG
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Such another peerless queenN
Only could her mirror showC
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Easy to match what others doO
Perform the feat as well as theyP
Hard to out do the brave the trueO
And find a loftier wayP
The school decays the learning spoilsG
Because of the sons of wineQ
How snatch the stripling from their toilsG
Yet can one ray of truth divineQ
The blaze of revellers' feasts outshineQ
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Of all wit's uses the main oneR
Is to live well with who has noneR
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The tongue is prone to lose the wayP
Not so the pen for in a letterS
We have not better things to sayP
But surely say them betterS
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She walked in flowers around my fieldT
As June herself around the sphereU
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Friends to me are frozen wineQ
I wait the sun on them should shineQ
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You shall not love me for what daily spendsG
You shall not know me in the noisy streetV
Where I as others follow petty endsG
Nor when in fair saloons we chance to meetV
Nor when I'm jaded sick anxious or meanN
But love me then and only when you knowC
Me for the channel of the rivers of GodW
From deep ideal fontal heavens that flowC
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To and fro the Genius fliesG
A light which plays and hoversG
Over the maiden's headX
And dips sometimes as low as to her eyesG
Of her faults I take no noteY
Fault and folly are not mineQ
Comes the Genius all's forgotZ
Replunged again into that upper sphereU
He scatters wide and wild its lustres hereA2
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LoveB2
Asks nought his brother cannot giveC2
Asks nothing but does all receiveD2
Love calls not to his aid eventsG
He to his wants can well sufficeG
Asks not of others soft consentsG
Nor kind occasion without eyesG
Nor plots to ope or bolt a gateE2
Nor heeds Condition's iron wallsG
Where he goes goes before him FateE2
Whom he uniteth God installsG
Instant and perfect his accessG
To the dear object of his thoughtF2
Though foes and land and seas betweenN
Himself and his love interveneN
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The brave Empedocles defying foolsG
Pronounced the word that mortals hate to hearA2
I am divine I am not mortal madeG2
I am superior to my human weedsG
Not Sense but Reason is the Judge of truthH2
Reason's twofold part human part divineQ
That human part may be described and taughtF2
The other portion language cannot speakI2
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Tell men what they knew beforeJ2
Paint the prospect from their doorJ2
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Him strong Genius urged to roamK2
Stronger Custom brought him homeK2
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That each should in his house abideL2
Therefore was the world so wideL2
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Thou shalt make thy houseG
The temple of a nation's vowsG
Spirits of a higher strainM2
Who sought thee once shall seek againN2
I detected many a godW
Forth already on the roadO2
Ancestors of beauty comeM
In thy breast to make a homeK2
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The archangel HopeP2
Looks to the azure copeP2
Waits through dark ages for the mornQ2
Defeated day by day but unto victory bornQ2
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As the drop feeds its fated flowerS
As finds its Alp the snowy showerS
Child of the omnific NeedR2
Hurled into life to do a deedR2
Man drinks the water drinks the lightS2
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Ever the Rock of Ages meltsG
Into the mineral airT2
To be the quarry whence to buildH
Thought and its mansions fairT2
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Go if thou wilt ambrosial flowerS
Go match thee with thy seeming peersG
I will wait Heaven's perfect hourS
Through the innumerable yearsG
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Yes sometimes to the sorrow strickenR
Shall his own sorrow seem impertinentD
A thing that takes no more root in the worldU2
Than doth the traveller's shadow on the rockV2
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But if thou do thy bestW2
Without remission without restW2
And invite the sunbeamX2
And abhor to feign or seemX2
Even to those who thee should loveB2
And thy behavior approveY2
If thou go in thine own likenessG
Be it health or be it sicknessG
If thou go as thy father's sonR
If thou wear no mask or lieZ2
Dealing purely and nakedlyZ2
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Ascending thorough just degreesG
To a consummate holinessG
As angel blind to trespass doneR
And bleaching all souls like the sunR
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From the stores of eldest matterS
The deep eyed flame obedient waterS
Transparent air all feeding earthA3
He took the flower of all their worthA3
And best with best in sweet consentB3
Combined a new temperamentD

Ralph Waldo Emerson



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