Maiden Speech Of The Aeolian Harp Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDDEBFFGGHHIEAAJ KJK| Soft and softlier hold me friends | A |
| Thanks if your genial care | B |
| Unbind and give me to the air | B |
| Keep your lips or finger tips | C |
| For flute or spinet's dancing chips | C |
| I await a tenderer touch | D |
| I ask more or not so much | D |
| Give me to the atmosphere | E |
| Where is the wind my brother where | B |
| Lift the sash lay me within | F |
| Lend me your ears and I begin | F |
| For gentle harp to gentle hearts | G |
| The secret of the world imparts | G |
| And not to day and not to morrow | H |
| Can drain its wealth of hope and sorrow | H |
| But day by day to loving ear | I |
| Unlocks new sense and loftier cheer | E |
| I've come to live with you sweet friends | A |
| This home my minstrel journeyings ends | A |
| Many and subtle are my lays | J |
| The latest better than the first | K |
| For I can mend the happiest days | J |
| And charm the anguish of the worst | K |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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