From The Phi Beta Kappa Poem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KK| Ill fits the abstemious Muse a crown to weave | A |
| For living brows ill fits them to receive | A |
| And yet if virtue abrogate the law | B |
| One portrait fact or fancy we may draw | B |
| A form which Nature cast in the heroic mould | C |
| Of them who rescued liberty of old | C |
| He when the rising storm of party roared | D |
| Brought his great forehead to the council board | D |
| There while hot heads perplexed with fears the state | E |
| Calm as the morn the manly patriot sate | E |
| Seemed when at last his clarion accents broke | F |
| As if the conscience of the country spoke | F |
| Not on its base Monadnoc surer stood | G |
| Than he to common sense and common good | G |
| No mimic from his breast his counsel drew | H |
| Believed the eloquent was aye the true | H |
| He bridged the gulf from th' alway good and wise | I |
| To that within the vision of small eyes | I |
| Self centred when he launched the genuine word | J |
| It shook or captivated all who heard | J |
| Ran from his mouth to mountains and the sea | K |
| And burned in noble hearts proverb and prophecy | K |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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