Mithridates Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABA CCDD EFGF HHEEII JJKKEEIIILLEEMN| I cannot spare water or wine | A |
| Tobacco leaf or poppy or rose | B |
| From the earth poles to the Line | A |
| All between that works or grows | B |
| Every thing is kin of mine | A |
| - | |
| Give me agates for my meat | C |
| Give me cantharids to eat | C |
| From air and ocean bring me foods | D |
| From all zones and altitudes | D |
| - | |
| From all natures sharp and slimy | E |
| Salt and basalt wild and tame | F |
| Tree and lichen ape sea lion | G |
| Bird and reptile be my game | F |
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| Ivy for my fillet band | H |
| Blinding dogwood in my hand | H |
| Hemlock for my sherbet cull me | E |
| And the prussic juice to lull me | E |
| Swing me in the upas boughs | I |
| Vampire fanned when I carouse | I |
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| Too long shut in strait and few | J |
| Thinly dieted on dew | J |
| I will use the world and sift it | K |
| To a thousand humors shift it | K |
| As you spin a cherry | E |
| O doleful ghosts and goblins merry | E |
| O all you virtues methods mights | I |
| Means appliances delights | I |
| Reputed wrongs and braggart rights | I |
| Smug routine and things allowed | L |
| Minorities things under cloud | L |
| Hither take me use me fill me | E |
| Vein and artery though ye kill me | E |
| God I will not be an owl | M |
| But sun me in the Capitol | N |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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