Nature Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCCCCCDEF CGCGGGCCHH A HHIIJJKKLCLCMMHHHNNE EHH

IA
Winters knowB
Easily to shed the snowB
And the untaught Spring is wiseC
In cowslips and anemonesC
Nature hating art and painsC
Baulks and baffles plotting brainsC
Casualty and SurpriseC
Are the apples of her eyesC
But she dearly loves the poorD
And by marvel of her ownE
Strikes the loud pretender downF
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For Nature listens in the roseC
And hearkens in the berry's bellG
To help her friends to plague her foesC
And like wise God she judges wellG
Yet doth much her love excelG
To the souls that never fellG
To swains that live in happinessC
And do well because they pleaseC
Who walk in ways that are unfamedH
And feats achieve before they're namedH
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IIA
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She is gamesome and goodH
But of mutable moodH
No dreary repeater now and againI
She will be all things to all menI
She who is old but nowise feebleJ
Pours her power into the peopleJ
Merry and manifold without barK
Makes and moulds them what they areK
And what they call their city wayL
Is not their way but hersC
And what they say they made to dayL
They learned of the oaks and firsC
She spawneth men as mallows freshM
Hero and maiden flesh of her fleshM
She drugs her water and her wheatH
With the flavours she finds meetH
And gives them what to drink and eatH
And having thus their bread and growthN
They do her bidding nothing loathN
What's most theirs is not their ownE
But borrowed in atoms from iron and stoneE
And in their vaunted works of ArtH
The master stroke is still her partH

Ralph Waldo Emerson



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