Guy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDBBEEFGHHBBIIJJ KLMMBBNNOOAABBPPQQRE SSTT| Mortal mixed of middle clay | A |
| Attempered to the night and day | A |
| Interchangeable with things | B |
| Needs no amulets nor rings | B |
| Guy possessed the talisman | C |
| That all things from him began | D |
| And as of old Polycrates | B |
| Chained the sunshine and the breeze | B |
| So did Guy betimes discover | E |
| Fortune was his guard and lover | E |
| In strange junctures felt with awe | F |
| His own symmetry with law | G |
| That no mixture could withstand | H |
| The virtue of his lucky hand | H |
| He gold or jewel could not lose | B |
| Nor not receive his ample dues | B |
| In the street if he turned round | I |
| His eye the eye 'twas seeking found | I |
| It seemed his Genius discreet | J |
| Worked on the Maker's own receipt | J |
| And made each tide and element | K |
| Stewards of stipend and of rent | L |
| So that the common waters fell | M |
| As costly wine into his well | M |
| He had so sped his wise affairs | B |
| That he caught nature in his snares | B |
| Early or late the falling rain | N |
| Arrived in time to swell his grain | N |
| Stream could not so perversely wind | O |
| But corn of Guy's was there to grind | O |
| The whirlwind found it on its way | A |
| To speed his sails to dry his hay | A |
| And the world's sun seemed to rise | B |
| To drudge all day for Guy the wise | B |
| In his rich nurseries timely skill | P |
| Strong crab with nobler blood did fill | P |
| The Zephyr in his garden rolled | Q |
| From plum trees vegetable gold | Q |
| And all the hours of the year | R |
| With their own harvest hovered were | E |
| There was no frost but welcome came | S |
| Nor freshet nor midsummer flame | S |
| Belonged to wind and world the toil | T |
| And venture and to Guy the oil | T |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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