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 SSA3A3B3DA 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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