Illusions Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIGJKLMKNJOAJ P GGNGNOAQQOROSQNQ| Flow flow the waves hated | A |
| Accursed adored | B |
| The waves of mutation | C |
| No anchorage is | D |
| Sleep is not death is not | E |
| Who seem to die live | F |
| House you were born in | G |
| Friends of your spring time | H |
| Old man and young maid | I |
| Day's toil and its guerdon | G |
| They are all vanishing | J |
| Fleeing to fables | K |
| Cannot be moored | L |
| See the stars through them | M |
| Through treacherous marbles | K |
| Know the stars yonder | N |
| The stars everlasting | J |
| Are fugitive also | O |
| And emulate vaulted | A |
| The lambent heat lightning | J |
| And fire fly's flight | P |
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| When thou dost return | G |
| On the wave's circulation | G |
| Behold the shimmer | N |
| The wild dissipation | G |
| And out of endeavor | N |
| To change and to flow | O |
| The gas become solid | A |
| And phantoms and nothings | Q |
| Return to be things | Q |
| And endless imbroglio | O |
| Is law and the world | R |
| Then first shalt thou know | O |
| That in the wild turmoil | S |
| Horsed on the Proteus | Q |
| Thou ridest to power | N |
| And to endurance | Q |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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