Loss And Gain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HDHD| Virtue runs before the muse | A |
| And defies her skill | B |
| She is rapt and doth refuse | A |
| To wait a painter's will | B |
| - | |
| Star adoring occupied | C |
| Virtue cannot bend her | D |
| Just to please a poet's pride | C |
| To parade her splendor | D |
| - | |
| The bard must be with good intent | E |
| No more his but hers | F |
| Throw away his pen and paint | G |
| Kneel with worshippers | F |
| - | |
| Then perchance a sunny ray | H |
| From the heaven of fire | D |
| His lost tools may over pay | H |
| And better his desire | D |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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