Monadnoc Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Thousand minstrels woke within me	A
Our music's in the hills	B
Gayest pictures rose to win me	A
Leopard colored rills	B
Up If thou knew'st who calls	B
To twilight parks of beech and pine	C
High over the river intervals	B
Above the ploughman's highest line	C
Over the owner's farthest walls	B
Up where the airy citadel	D
O'erlooks the purging landscape's swell	D
Let not unto the stones the day	E
Her lily and rose her sea and land display	E
Read the celestial sign	C
Lo the South answers to the North	F
Bookworm break this sloth urbane	G
A greater Spirit bids thee forth	F
Than the gray dreams which thee detain	G
	-
Mark how the climbing Oreads	B
Beckon thee to their arcades	B
Youth for a moment free as they	E
Teach thy feet to feel the ground	H
Ere yet arrive the wintry day	E
When Time thy feet has bound	H
Accept the bounty of thy birth	I
Taste the lordship of the earth	I
	-
I heard and I obeyed	J
Assured that he who pressed the claim	K
Well known but loving not a name	K
Was not to be gainsaid	J
	-
Ere yet the summoning voice was still	L
I turned to Cheshire's haughty hill	L
From the fixed cone the cloud rack flowed	J
Like ample banner flung abroad	J
Round about a hundred miles	B
With invitation to the sea and to the bordering isles	B
	-
In his own loom's garment drest	J
By his own bounty blest	J
Fast abides this constant giver	M
Pouring many a cheerful river	M
To far eyes an a euml rial isle	N
Unploughed which finer spirits pile	N
Which morn and crimson evening paint	J
For bard for lover and for saint	J
The country's core	O
Inspirer prophet evermore	O
Pillar which God aloft had set	J
So that men might it not forget	J
It should be their life's ornament	J
And mix itself with each event	J
Their calendar and dial	P
Barometer and chemic phial	P
Garden of berries perch of birds	B
Pasture of pool haunting herds	B
Graced by each change of sum untold	J
Earth baking heat stone cleaving cold	J
	-
The Titan minds his sky affairs	B
Rich rents and wide alliance shares	B
Mysteries of color daily laid	J
By the great sun in light and shade	J
And sweet varieties of chance	B
And the mystic seasons' dance	B
And thief like step of liberal hours	B
Which thawed the snow drift into flowers	B
O wondrous craft of plant and stone	Q
By eldest science done and shown	Q
Happy I said whose home is here	R
Fair fortunes to the mountaineer	S
Boon nature to his poorest shed	J
Has royal pleasure grounds outspread	J
Intent I searched the region round	J
And in low hut my monarch found	J
He was no eagle and no earl	P
Alas my foundling was a churl	P
With heart of cat and eyes of bug	T
Dull victim of his pipe and mug	T
Woe is me for my hopes' downfall	P
Lord is yon squalid peasant all	P
That this proud nursery could breed	J
For God's vicegerency and stead	J
Time out of mind this forge of ores	B
Quarry of spars in mountain pores	B
Old cradle hunting ground and bier	R
Of wolf and otter bear and deer	S
Well built abode of many a race	B
Tower of observance searching space	B
Factory of river and of rain	G
Link in the alps' globe girding chain	G
By million changes skilled to tell	P
What in the Eternal standeth well	P
And what obedient nature can	U
Is this colossal talisman	V
Kindly to creature blood and kind	J
And speechless to the master's mind	J
	-
I thought to find the patriots	B
In whom the stock of freedom roots	B
To myself I oft recount	J
Tales of many a famous mount	J
Wales Scotland Uri Hungary's dells	B
Roys and Scanderbegs and Tells	B
Here now shall nature crowd her powers	B
Her music and her meteors	B
And lifting man to the blue deep	W
Where stars their perfect courses keep	W
Like wise preceptor lure his eye	X
To sound the science of the sky	X
And carry learning to its height	J
Of untried power and sane delight	J
The Indian cheer the frosty skies	B
Breed purer wits inventive eyes	B
Eyes that frame cities where none be	A
And hands that stablish what these see	A
And by the moral of his place	B
Hint summits of heroic grace	B
Man in these crags a fastness find	J
To fight pollution of the mind	J
In the wide thaw and ooze of wrong	Y
Adhere like this foundation strong	Y
The insanity of towns to stem	Z
With simpleness for stratagem	A2
But if the brave old mould is broke	B2
And end in clowns the mountain folk	B2
In tavern cheer and tavern joke	B2
Sink O mountain in the swamp	C2
Hide in thy skies O sovereign lap	D2
Perish like leaves the highland breed	J
No sire survive no son succeed	J
	-
Soft let not the offended muse	B
Toil's hard hap with scorn accuse	B
Many hamlets sought I then	E2
Many farms of mountain men	E2
Found I not a minstrel seed	J
But men of bone and good at need	J
Rallying round a parish steeple	P
Nestle warm the highland people	P
Coarse and boisterous yet mild	J
Strong as giant slow as child	J
Smoking in a squalid room	F2
Where yet the westland breezes come	A2
Close hid in those rough guises lurk	G2
Western magians here they work	G2
Sweat and season are their arts	B
Their talismans are ploughs and carts	B
And well the youngest can command	J
Honey from the frozen land	J
With sweet hay the swamp adorn	H2
Change the running sand to corn	H2
For wolves and foxes lowing herds	B
And for cold mosses cream and curds	B
Weave wood to canisters and mats	B
Drain sweet maple juice in vats	B
No bird is safe that cuts the air	I2
From their rifle or their snare	I2
No fish in river or in lake	J2
But their long hands it thence will take	J2
And the country's iron face	B
Like wax their fashioning skill betrays	B
To fill the hollows sink the hills	B
Bridge gulfs drain swamps build dams and mills	B
And fit the bleak and howling place	B
For gardens of a finer race	B
The world soul knows his own affair	I2
Fore looking when his hands prepare	I2
For the next ages men of mould	J
Well embodied well ensouled	J
He cools the present's fiery glow	P
Sets the life pulse strong but slow	P
Bitter winds and fasts austere	S
His quarantines and grottos where	I2
He slowly cures decrepit flesh	K2
And brings it infantile and fresh	K2
These exercises are the toys	B
And games with which he breathes his boys	B
They bide their time and well can prove	L2
If need were their line from Jove	L2
Of the same stuff and so allayed	J
As that whereof the sun is made	J
And of that fibre quick and strong	Y
Whose throbs are love whose thrills are song	Y
Now in sordid weeds they sleep	W
Their secret now in dulness keep	W
Yet will you learn our ancient speech	M2
These the masters who can teach	M2
Fourscore or a hundred words	B
All their vocal muse affords	B
These they turn in other fashion	V
Than the writer or the parson	V
I can spare the college bell	P
And the learned lecture well	P
Spare the clergy and libraries	B
Institutes and dictionaries	B
For the hardy English root	J
Thrives here unvalued underfoot	J
Rude poets of the tavern hearth	N2
Squandering your unquoted mirth	I
Which keeps the ground and never soars	B
While Jake retorts and Reuben roars	B
Tough and screaming as birch bark	O2
Goes like bullet to its mark	O2
While the solid curse and jeer	S
Never balk the waiting ear	R
To student ears keen relished jokes	B
On truck and stock and farming folks	B
Nought the mountain yields thereof	L2
But savage health and sinews tough	L2
	-
On the summit as I stood	J
O'er the wide floor of plain and flood	J
Seemed to me the towering hill	P
Was not altogether still	P
But a quiet sense conveyed	J
If I err not thus it said	J
	-
Many feet in summer seek	P2
Betimes my far appearing peak	P2
In the dreaded winter time	Q2
None save dappling shadows climb	Q2
Under clouds my lonely head	J
Old as the sun old almost as the shade	J
And comest thou	R2
To see strange forests and new snow	P
And tread uplifted land	J
And leavest thou thy lowland race	B
Here amid clouds to stand	J
And would'st be my companion	V
Where I gaze	B
And shall gaze	B
When forests fall and man is gone	S2
Over tribes and over times	B
As the burning Lyre	T2
Nearing me	A
With its stars of northern fire	M
In many a thousand years	B
	-
Ah welcome if thou bring	U2
My secret in thy brain	G
To mountain top may muse's wing	U2
With good allowance strain	G
Gentle pilgrim if thou know	P
The gamut old of Pan	U
And how the hills began	U
The frank blessings of the hill	P
Fall on thee as fall they will	P
'Tis the law of bush and stone	Q
Each can only take his own	Q
Let him heed who can and will	P
Enchantment fixed me here	R
To stand the hurts of time until	P
In mightier chant I disappear	S
If thou trowest	J
How the chemic eddies play	P
Pole to pole and what they say	P
And that these gray crags	P
Not on crags are hung	V2
But beads are of a rosary	A
On prayer and music strung	V2
And credulous through the granite seeming	U2
Seest the smile of Reason beaming	U2
Can thy style discerning eye	X
The hidden working Builder spy	X
Who builds yet makes no chips no din	W2
With hammer soft as snow flake's flight	J
Knowest thou this	P
O pilgrim wandering not amiss	P
Already my rocks lie light	J
And soon my cone will spin	W2
For the world was built in order	M
And the atoms march in tune	X2
Rhyme the pipe and time the warder	M
Cannot forget the sun the moon	X2
Orb and atom forth they prance	P
When they hear from far the rune	X2
None so backward in the troop	Y2
When the music and the dance	P
Reach his place and circumstance	P
But knows the sun creating sound	J
And though a pyramid will bound	J
	-
Monadnoc is a mountain strong	Y
Tall and good my kind among	V2
But well I know no mountain can	U
Measure with a perfect man	U
For it is on Zodiack's writ	J
Adamant is soft to wit	J
And when the greater comes again	E2
With my music in his brain	G
I shall pass as glides my shadow	J
Daily over hill and meadow	J
	-
Through all time	Q2
I hear the approaching feet	J
Along the flinty pathway beat	J
Of him that cometh and shall come	A2
Of him who shall as lightly bear	I2
My daily load of woods and streams	P
As now the round sky cleaving boat	J
Which never strains its rocky beams	P
Whose timbers as they silent float	J
Alps and Caucasus uprear	I2
And the long Alleghanies here	I2
And all town sprinkled lands that be	A
Sailing through stars with all their history	A
	-
Every morn I lift my head	J
Gaze o'er New England underspread	J
South from Saint Lawrence to the Sound	J
From Katshill east to the sea bound	J
Anchored fast for many an age	Z2
I await the bard and sage	Z2
Who in large thoughts like fair pearl seed	J
Shall string Monadnoc like a bead	J
Comes that cheerful troubadour	I2
This mound shall throb his face before	I2
As when with inward fires and pain	G
It rose a bubble from the plain	G
When he cometh I shall shed	J
From this well spring in my head	J
Fountain drop of spicier worth	I
Than all vintage of the earth	I
There's fruit upon my barren soil	P
Costlier far than wine or oil	P
There's a berry blue and gold	J
Autumn ripe its juices hold	J
Sparta's stoutness Bethlehem's heart	J
Asia's rancor Athens' art	J
Slowsure Britain's secular might	J
And the German's inward sight	J
I will give my son to eat	J
Best of Pan's immortal meat	J
Bread to eat and juice to drink	A3
So the thoughts that he shall think	A3
Shall not be forms of stars but stars	P
Nor pictures pale but Jove and Mars	P
	-
He comes but not of that race bred	J
Who daily climb my specular head	J
Oft as morning wreathes my scarf	L2
Fled the last plumule of the dark	O2
Pants up hither the spruce clerk	G2
From South Cove and City wharf	L2
I take him up my rugged sides	P
Half repentant scant of breath	B3
Bead eyes my granite chaos show	J
And my midsummer snow	J
Open the daunting map beneath	C3
All his county sea and land	J
Dwarfed to measure of his hand	J
His day's ride is a furlong space	P
His city tops a glimmering haze	P
I plant his eyes on the sky hoop bounding	U2
See there the grim gray rounding	U2
Of the bullet of the earth	I
Whereon ye sail	P
Tumbling steep	W
In the uncontinented deep	W
He looks on that and he turns pale	P
'Tis even so this treacherous kite	J
Farm furrowed town incrusted sphere	I2
Thoughtless of its anxious freight	J
Plunges eyeless on for ever	I2
And he poor parasite	J
Cooped in a ship he cannot steer	I2
Who is the captain he knows not	J
Port or pilot trows not	J
Risk or ruin he must share	I2
I scowl on him with my cloud	J
With my north wind chill his blood	J
I lame him clattering down the rocks	P
And to live he is in fear	I2
Then at last I let him down	D3
Once more into his dapper town	D3
To chatter frightened to his clan	U
And forget me if he can	U
As in the old poetic fame	K
The gods are blind and lame	K
And the simular despite	J
Betrays the more abounding might	J
So call not waste that barren cone	Q
Above the floral zone	Q
Where forests starve	L2
It is pure use	P
What sheaves like those which here we glean and bind	J
Of a celestial Ceres and the Muse	P
	-
Ages are thy days	P
Thou grand expressor of the present tense	P
And type of permanence	P
Firm ensign of the fatal Being	U2
Amid these coward shapes of joy and grief	L2
That will not bide the seeing	U2
Hither we bring	U2
Our insect miseries to the rocks	P
And the whole flight with pestering wing	U2
Vanish and end their murmuring	U2
Vanish beside these dedicated blocks	P
Which who can tell what mason laid	J
Spoils of a front none need restore	I2
Replacing frieze and architrave	L2
Yet flowers each stone rosette and metope brave	L2
Still is the haughty pile erect	J
Of the old building Intellect	J
Complement of human kind	J
Having us at vantage still	P
Our sumptuous indigence	P
O barren mound thy plenties fill	P
We fool and prate	J
Thou art silent and sedate	J
To million kinds and times one sense	P
The constant mountain doth dispense	P
Shedding on all its snows and leaves	P
One joy it joys one grief it grieves	P
Thou seest O watchman tall	P
Our towns and races grow and fall	P
And imagest the stable Good	J
For which we all our lifetime grope	E3
In shifting form the formless mind	J
And though the substance us elude	J
We in thee the shadow find	J
Thou in our astronomy	A
An opaker star	I2
Seen haply from afar	I2
Above the horizon's hoop	Y2
A moment by the railway troop	Y2
As o'er some bolder height they speed	J
By circumspect ambition	V
By errant Gain	G
By feasters and the frivolous	P
Recallest us	P
And makest sane	G
Mute orator well skilled to plead	J
And send conviction without phrase	P
Thou dost supply	X
The shortness of our days	P
And promise on thy Founder's truth	F3
Long morrow to this mortal youth	F3

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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