Maia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DEDE FGH IIJJ KL| Illusion works impenetrable | A |
| Weaving webs innumerable | A |
| Her gay pictures never fail | B |
| Crowds each on other veil on veil | B |
| Charmer who will be believed | C |
| By man who thirsts to be deceived | C |
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| Illusions like the tints of pearl | D |
| Or changing colors of the sky | E |
| Or ribbons of a dancing girl | D |
| That mend her beauty to the eye | E |
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| The cold gray down upon the quinces lieth | F |
| And the poor spinners weave their webs thereon | G |
| To share the sunshine that so spicy is | H |
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| Samson stark at Dagon's knee | I |
| Gropes for columns strong as he | I |
| When his ringlets grew and curled | J |
| Groped for axle of the world | J |
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| But Nature whistled with all her winds | K |
| Did as she pleased and went her way | L |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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