Lines Written By Ellen Louisa Tucker Shortly Before Her Marriage To Mr. Emerson Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD BEBE FGFG HIJI KLKL MEME| Love scatters oil | A |
| On Life's dark sea | B |
| Sweetens its toil | A |
| Our helmsman he | B |
| - | |
| Around him hover | C |
| Odorous clouds | D |
| Under this cover | C |
| His arrows he shrouds | D |
| - | |
| The cloud was around me | B |
| I knew not why | E |
| Such sweetness crowned me | B |
| While Time shot by | E |
| - | |
| No pain was within | F |
| But calm delight | G |
| Like a world without sin | F |
| Or a day without night | G |
| - | |
| The shafts of the god | H |
| Were tipped with down | I |
| For they drew no blood | J |
| And they knit no frown | I |
| - | |
| I knew of them not | K |
| Until Cupid laughed loud | L |
| And saying You're caught | K |
| Flew off in the cloud | L |
| - | |
| O then I awoke | M |
| And I lived but to sigh | E |
| Till a clear voice spoke | M |
| And my tears are dry | E |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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