Fragments On Nature And Life - Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDE FF GGGG GH IIGJGJ KLKL GMMG NC OPOPGQGQQ RR PSPS TU QQ GVGVNCWC GGXGYQZUA2 B2C2D2GGGGE2GE2GGF2N N GA2G2GH2QF2I2 J2J2 K2K2 L2L2 GGM2N2WO2MK2 P2P2Q2Q2 SSR2R2S2 GT2HT2 SGSG RDU2V2 W2W2X2X2B2Y2GGRZ2Z2 GGRR SSA3A3B3D| A train of gay and clouded days | A |
| Dappled with joy and grief and praise | A |
| Beauty to fire us saints to save | B |
| Escort us to a little grave | B |
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| No fate save by the victim's fault is low | C |
| For God hath writ all dooms magnificent | D |
| So guilt not traverses his tender will | E |
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| Around the man who seeks a noble end | F |
| Not angels but divinities attend | F |
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| From high to higher forces | G |
| The scale of power uprears | G |
| The heroes on their horses | G |
| The gods upon their spheres | G |
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| This shining moment is an edifice | G |
| Which the Omnipotent cannot rebuild | H |
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| Roomy Eternity | I |
| Casts her schemes rarely | I |
| And an aeon allows | G |
| For each quality and part | J |
| Of the multitudinous | G |
| And many chambered heart | J |
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| The beggar begs by God's command | K |
| And gifts awake when givers sleep | L |
| Swords cannot cut the giving hand | K |
| Nor stab the love that orphans keep | L |
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| In the chamber on the stairs | G |
| Lurking dumb | M |
| Go and come | M |
| Lemurs and Lars | G |
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| Such another peerless queen | N |
| Only could her mirror show | C |
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| Easy to match what others do | O |
| Perform the feat as well as they | P |
| Hard to out do the brave the true | O |
| And find a loftier way | P |
| The school decays the learning spoils | G |
| Because of the sons of wine | Q |
| How snatch the stripling from their toils | G |
| Yet can one ray of truth divine | Q |
| The blaze of revellers' feasts outshine | Q |
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| Of all wit's uses the main one | R |
| Is to live well with who has none | R |
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| The tongue is prone to lose the way | P |
| Not so the pen for in a letter | S |
| We have not better things to say | P |
| But surely say them better | S |
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| She walked in flowers around my field | T |
| As June herself around the sphere | U |
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| Friends to me are frozen wine | Q |
| I wait the sun on them should shine | Q |
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| You shall not love me for what daily spends | G |
| You shall not know me in the noisy street | V |
| Where I as others follow petty ends | G |
| Nor when in fair saloons we chance to meet | V |
| Nor when I'm jaded sick anxious or mean | N |
| But love me then and only when you know | C |
| Me for the channel of the rivers of God | W |
| From deep ideal fontal heavens that flow | C |
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| To and fro the Genius flies | G |
| A light which plays and hovers | G |
| Over the maiden's head | X |
| And dips sometimes as low as to her eyes | G |
| Of her faults I take no note | Y |
| Fault and folly are not mine | Q |
| Comes the Genius all's forgot | Z |
| Replunged again into that upper sphere | U |
| He scatters wide and wild its lustres here | A2 |
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| Love | B2 |
| Asks nought his brother cannot give | C2 |
| Asks nothing but does all receive | D2 |
| Love calls not to his aid events | G |
| He to his wants can well suffice | G |
| Asks not of others soft consents | G |
| Nor kind occasion without eyes | G |
| Nor plots to ope or bolt a gate | E2 |
| Nor heeds Condition's iron walls | G |
| Where he goes goes before him Fate | E2 |
| Whom he uniteth God installs | G |
| Instant and perfect his access | G |
| To the dear object of his thought | F2 |
| Though foes and land and seas between | N |
| Himself and his love intervene | N |
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| The brave Empedocles defying fools | G |
| Pronounced the word that mortals hate to hear | A2 |
| I am divine I am not mortal made | G2 |
| I am superior to my human weeds | G |
| Not Sense but Reason is the Judge of truth | H2 |
| Reason's twofold part human part divine | Q |
| That human part may be described and taught | F2 |
| The other portion language cannot speak | I2 |
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| Tell men what they knew before | J2 |
| Paint the prospect from their door | J2 |
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| Him strong Genius urged to roam | K2 |
| Stronger Custom brought him home | K2 |
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| That each should in his house abide | L2 |
| Therefore was the world so wide | L2 |
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| Thou shalt make thy house | G |
| The temple of a nation's vows | G |
| Spirits of a higher strain | M2 |
| Who sought thee once shall seek again | N2 |
| I detected many a god | W |
| Forth already on the road | O2 |
| Ancestors of beauty come | M |
| In thy breast to make a home | K2 |
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| The archangel Hope | P2 |
| Looks to the azure cope | P2 |
| Waits through dark ages for the morn | Q2 |
| Defeated day by day but unto victory born | Q2 |
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| As the drop feeds its fated flower | S |
| As finds its Alp the snowy shower | S |
| Child of the omnific Need | R2 |
| Hurled into life to do a deed | R2 |
| Man drinks the water drinks the light | S2 |
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| Ever the Rock of Ages melts | G |
| Into the mineral air | T2 |
| To be the quarry whence to build | H |
| Thought and its mansions fair | T2 |
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| Go if thou wilt ambrosial flower | S |
| Go match thee with thy seeming peers | G |
| I will wait Heaven's perfect hour | S |
| Through the innumerable years | G |
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| Yes sometimes to the sorrow stricken | R |
| Shall his own sorrow seem impertinent | D |
| A thing that takes no more root in the world | U2 |
| Than doth the traveller's shadow on the rock | V2 |
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| But if thou do thy best | W2 |
| Without remission without rest | W2 |
| And invite the sunbeam | X2 |
| And abhor to feign or seem | X2 |
| Even to those who thee should love | B2 |
| And thy behavior approve | Y2 |
| If thou go in thine own likeness | G |
| Be it health or be it sickness | G |
| If thou go as thy father's son | R |
| If thou wear no mask or lie | Z2 |
| Dealing purely and nakedly | Z2 |
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| Ascending thorough just degrees | G |
| To a consummate holiness | G |
| As angel blind to trespass done | R |
| And bleaching all souls like the sun | R |
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| From the stores of eldest matter | S |
| The deep eyed flame obedient water | S |
| Transparent air all feeding earth | A3 |
| He took the flower of all their worth | A3 |
| And best with best in sweet consent | B3 |
| Combined a new temperament | D |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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