Merlin I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDEFFGHIHIJKLKM NONPQQ DFRRSTTUPPVW XXYZA2B2B2B2B2B2 B2C2C2B2D2B2D2E2F2F2 G2H2H2I2J2J2I2 B2B2B2B2OK2K2L2M2PN2 N2| Thy 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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