Lover's Petition Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEFFCGHH IJGJKJLLCCMNGood Heart that ownest all | A |
I ask a modest boon and small | A |
Not of lands and towns the gift | B |
Too large a load for me to lift | B |
But for one proper creature | C |
Which geographic eye | D |
Sweeping the map of Western earth | E |
Or the Atlantic coast from Maine | F |
To Powhatan's domain | F |
Could not descry | C |
Is't much to ask in all thy huge creation | G |
So trivial a part | H |
A solitary heart | H |
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Yet count me not of spirit mean | I |
Or mine a mean demand | J |
For 't is the concentration | G |
And worth of all the land | J |
The sister of the sea | K |
The daughter of the strand | J |
Composed of air and light | L |
And of the swart earth might | L |
So little to thy poet's prayer | C |
Thy large bounty well can spare | C |
And yet I think if she were gone | M |
The world were better left alone | N |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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