Merlin I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDEFFGHIHIJKLKM NONPQQ DFRRSTTUPPVW XXYZA2B2B2B2B2B2 B2C2C2B2D2B2D2E2F2F2 G2H2H2I2J2J2I2 B2B2B2B2OK2K2L2M2PN2 N2Thy trivial harp will never please | A |
Or fill my craving ear | B |
Its chords should ring as blows the breeze | A |
Free peremptory clear | C |
No jingling serenader's art | D |
Nor tinkle of piano strings | E |
Can make the wild blood start | D |
In its mystic springs | E |
The kingly bard | F |
Must smite the chords rudely and hard | F |
As with hammer or with mace | G |
That they may render back | H |
Artful thunder that conveys | I |
Secrets of the solar track | H |
Sparks of the supersolar blaze | I |
Merlin's blows are strokes of fate | J |
Chiming with the forest tone | K |
When boughs buffet boughs in the wood | L |
Chiming with the gasp and moan | K |
Of the ice imprisoned flood | M |
With the pulse of manly hearts | N |
With the voice of orators | O |
With the din of city arts | N |
With the cannonade of wars | P |
With the marches of the brave | Q |
And prayers of might from martyrs' cave | Q |
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Great is the art | D |
Great be the manners of the bard | F |
He shall not his brain encumber | R |
With the coil of rhythm and number | R |
But leaving rule and pale forethought | S |
He shall aye climb | T |
For his rhyme | T |
Pass in pass in the angels say | U |
In to the upper doors | P |
Nor count compartments of the floors | P |
But mount to Paradise | V |
By the stairway of surprise | W |
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Blameless master of the games | X |
King of sport that never shames | X |
He shall daily joy dispense | Y |
Hid in song's sweet influence | Z |
Things more cheerly live and go | A2 |
What time the subtle mind | B2 |
Plays aloud the tune whereto | B2 |
Their pulses beat | B2 |
And march their feet | B2 |
And their members are combined | B2 |
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By Sybarites beguiled | B2 |
He shall no task decline | C2 |
Merlin's mighty line | C2 |
Extremes of nature reconciled | B2 |
Bereaved a tyrant of his will | D2 |
And made the lion mild | B2 |
Songs can the tempest still | D2 |
Scattered on the stormy air | E2 |
Mould the year to fair increase | F2 |
And bring in poetic peace | F2 |
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He shall not seek to weave | G2 |
In weak unhappy times | H2 |
Efficacious rhymes | H2 |
Wait his returning strength | I2 |
Bird that from the nadir's floor | J2 |
To the zenith's top could soar | J2 |
The soaring orbit of the muse exceeds that journey's length | I2 |
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Nor profane affect to hit | B2 |
Or compass that by meddling wit | B2 |
Which only the propitious mind | B2 |
Publishes when 'tis inclined | B2 |
There are open hours | O |
When the god's will sallies free | K2 |
And the dull idiot might see | K2 |
The flowing fortunes of a thousand years | L2 |
Sudden at unawares | M2 |
Self moved fly to the doors | P |
Nor sword of angels could reveal | N2 |
What they conceal | N2 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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