Musketaquid Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJ KLMNOPQRSTUKVWX VYVUXZKKA2ZB2C2UD2UE 2RF2VKG2U H2QVI2PJ2K2B2L2PM2PN 2B2PO2 VUJP2KUP2Q2B2P2VB2P2 B2R2B2

Because I was content with these poor fieldsA
Low open meads slender and sluggish streamsB
And found a home in haunts which others scornedC
The partial wood gods overpaid my loveD
And granted me the freedom of their stateE
And in their secret senate have prevailedF
With the dear dangerous lords that rule our lifeG
Made moon and planets parties to their bondH
And pitying through my solitary wontI
Shot million rays of thought and tendernessJ
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For me in showers in sweeping showers the springK
Visits the valley break away the cloudsL
I bathe in the morn's soft and silvered airM
And loiter willing by yon loitering streamN
Sparrows far off and nearer yonder birdO
Blue coated flying before from tree to treeP
Courageous sing a delicate overtureQ
To lead the tardy concert of the yearR
Onward and nearer draws the sun of MayS
And wide around the marriage of the plantsT
Is sweetly solemnized then flows amainU
The surge of summer's beauty dell and cragK
Hollow and lake hill side and pine arcadeV
Are touched with genius Yonder ragged cliffW
Has thousand faces in a thousand hoursX
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Here friendly landlords men ineloquentV
Inhabit and subdue the spacious farmsY
Traveller to thee perchance a tedious roadV
Or soon forgotten picture to these menU
The landscape is an armory of powersX
Which one by one they know to draw and useZ
They harness beast bird insect to their workK
They prove the virtues of each bed of rockK
And like a chemist 'mid his loaded jarsA2
Draw from each stratum its adapted useZ
To drug their crops or weapon their arts withalB2
They turn the frost upon their chemic heapC2
They set the wind to winnow vetch and grainU
They thank the spring flood for its fertile slimeD2
And on cheap summit levels of the snowU
Slide with the sledge to inaccessible woodsE2
O'er meadows bottomless So year by yearR
They fight the elements with elementsF2
That one would say meadow and forest walkedV
Upright in human shape to rule their likeK
And by the order in the field discloseG2
The order regnant in the yeoman's brainU
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What these strong masters wrote at large in milesH2
I followed in small copy in my acreQ
For there's no rood has not a star above itV
The cordial quality of pear or plumI2
Ascends as gladly in a single treeP
As in broad orchards resonant with beesJ2
And every atom poises for itselfK2
And for the whole The gentle Mother of allB2
Showed me the lore of colors and of soundsL2
The innumerable tenements of beautyP
The miracle of generative forceM2
Far reaching concords of astronomyP
Felt in the plants and in the punctual birdsN2
Mainly the linked purpose of the wholeB2
And chiefest prize found I true libertyP
The home of homes plain dealing Nature gaveO2
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The polite found me impolite the greatV
Would mortify me but in vainU
I am a willow of the wildernessJ
Loving the wind that bent me All my hurtsP2
My garden spade can heal A woodland walkK
A wild rose or rock loving columbineU
Salve my worst wounds and leave no cicatriceP2
For thus the wood gods murmured in my earQ2
Dost love our manners Canst thou silent lieB2
Canst thou thy pride forgot like nature passP2
Into the winter night's extinguished moodV
Canst thou shine now then darkleB2
And being latent feel thyself no lessP2
As when the all worshipped moon attracts the eyeB2
The river hill stems foliage are obscureR2
Yet envies none none are unenviableB2

Ralph Waldo Emerson



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