Hermione Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDEE FGEHEIGI JEEKKJGGLL AMEEM NOEPPELEE EQEEERR EEGEESETSAAAET EEEEAAEEEEEAAEEEE| On a mound an Arab lay | A |
| And sung his sweet regrets | B |
| And told his amulets | C |
| The summer bird | D |
| His sorrow heard | D |
| And when he heaved a sigh profound | E |
| The sympathetic swallow swept the ground | E |
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| 'If it be as they said she was not fair | F |
| Beauty's not beautiful to me | G |
| But sceptred genius aye inorbed | E |
| Culminating in her sphere | H |
| This Hermione absorbed | E |
| The lustre of the land and ocean | I |
| Hills and islands cloud and tree | G |
| In her form and motion | I |
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| 'I ask no bauble miniature | J |
| Nor ringlets dead | E |
| Shorn from her comely head | E |
| Now that morning not disdains | K |
| Mountains and the misty plains | K |
| Her colossal portraiture | J |
| They her heralds be | G |
| Steeped in her quality | G |
| And singers of her fame | L |
| Who is their Muse and dame | L |
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| 'Higher dear swallows mind not what I say | A |
| Ah heedless how the weak are strong | M |
| Say was it just | E |
| In thee to frame in me to trust | E |
| Thou to the Syrian couldst belong | M |
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| 'I am of a lineage | N |
| That each for each doth fast engage | O |
| In old Bassora's schools I seemed | E |
| Hermit vowed to books and gloom | P |
| Ill bestead for gay bridegroom | P |
| I was by thy touch redeemed | E |
| When thy meteor glances came | L |
| We talked at large of worldly fate | E |
| And drew truly every trait | E |
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| 'Once I dwelt apart | E |
| Now I live with all | Q |
| As shepherd's lamp on far hill side | E |
| Seems by the traveller espied | E |
| A door into the mountain heart | E |
| So didst thou quarry and unlock | R |
| Highways for me through the rock | R |
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| 'Now deceived thou wanderest | E |
| In strange lands unblest | E |
| And my kindred come to soothe me | G |
| Southwind is my next of blood | E |
| He is come through fragrant wood | E |
| Drugged with spice from climates warm | S |
| And in every twinkling glade | E |
| And twilight nook | T |
| Unveils thy form | S |
| Out of the forest way | A |
| Forth paced it yesterday | A |
| And when I sat by the watercourse | A |
| Watching the daylight fade | E |
| It throbbed up from the brook | T |
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| 'River and rose and crag and bird | E |
| Frost and sun and eldest night | E |
| To me their aid preferred | E |
| To me their comfort plight | E |
| Courage we are thine allies | A |
| And with this hint be wise | A |
| The chains of kind | E |
| The distant bind | E |
| Deed thou doest she must do | E |
| Above her will be true | E |
| And in her strict resort | E |
| To winds and waterfalls | A |
| And autumn's sunlit festivals | A |
| To music and to music's thought | E |
| Inextricably bound | E |
| She shall find thee and be found | E |
| Follow not her flying feet | E |
| Come to us herself to meet ' | - |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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