Merlin Ii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBAADCCEDADDADDDDF GGH AAAAIIJJDADAA DDDDDADKAK LLMNNNM| The rhyme of the poet | A |
| Modulates the king's affairs | B |
| Balance loving nature | C |
| Made all things in pairs | B |
| To every foot its antipode | A |
| Each color with its counter glowed | A |
| To every tone beat answering tones | D |
| Higher or graver | C |
| Flavor gladly blends with flavor | C |
| Leaf answers leaf upon the bough | E |
| And match the paired cotyledons | D |
| Hands to hands and feet to feet | A |
| In one body grooms and brides | D |
| Eldest rite two married sides | D |
| In every mortal meet | A |
| Light's far furnace shines | D |
| Smelting balls and bars | D |
| Forging double stars | D |
| Glittering twins and trines | D |
| The animals are sick with love | F |
| Lovesick with rhyme | G |
| Each with all propitious Time | G |
| Into chorus wove | H |
| - | |
| Like the dancers' ordered band | A |
| Thoughts come also hand in hand | A |
| In equal couples mated | A |
| Or else alternated | A |
| Adding by their mutual gage | I |
| One to other health and age | I |
| Solitary fancies go | J |
| Short lived wandering to and fro | J |
| Most like to bachelors | D |
| Or an ungiven maid | A |
| Not ancestors | D |
| With no posterity to make the lie afraid | A |
| Or keep truth undecayed | A |
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| Perfect paired as eagle's wings | D |
| Justice is the rhyme of things | D |
| Trade and counting use | D |
| The serf same tuneful muse | D |
| And Nemesis | D |
| Who with even matches odd | A |
| Who athwart space redresses | D |
| The partial wrong | K |
| Fills the just period | A |
| And finishes the song | K |
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| Subtle rhymes with ruin rife | L |
| Murmur in the house of life | L |
| Sung by the Sisters as they spin | M |
| In perfect time and measure they | N |
| Build and unbuild our echoing clay | N |
| As the two twilights of the day | N |
| Fold us music drunken in | M |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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