Lover's Petition Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEFFCGHH IJGJKJLLCCMN| Good 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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