Nature Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCCCCCDEF CGCGGGCCHH A HHIIJJKKLCLCMMHHHNNE EHHI | A |
Winters know | B |
Easily to shed the snow | B |
And the untaught Spring is wise | C |
In cowslips and anemones | C |
Nature hating art and pains | C |
Baulks and baffles plotting brains | C |
Casualty and Surprise | C |
Are the apples of her eyes | C |
But she dearly loves the poor | D |
And by marvel of her own | E |
Strikes the loud pretender down | F |
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For Nature listens in the rose | C |
And hearkens in the berry's bell | G |
To help her friends to plague her foes | C |
And like wise God she judges well | G |
Yet doth much her love excel | G |
To the souls that never fell | G |
To swains that live in happiness | C |
And do well because they please | C |
Who walk in ways that are unfamed | H |
And feats achieve before they're named | H |
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II | A |
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She is gamesome and good | H |
But of mutable mood | H |
No dreary repeater now and again | I |
She will be all things to all men | I |
She who is old but nowise feeble | J |
Pours her power into the people | J |
Merry and manifold without bar | K |
Makes and moulds them what they are | K |
And what they call their city way | L |
Is not their way but hers | C |
And what they say they made to day | L |
They learned of the oaks and firs | C |
She spawneth men as mallows fresh | M |
Hero and maiden flesh of her flesh | M |
She drugs her water and her wheat | H |
With the flavours she finds meet | H |
And gives them what to drink and eat | H |
And having thus their bread and growth | N |
They do her bidding nothing loath | N |
What's most theirs is not their own | E |
But borrowed in atoms from iron and stone | E |
And in their vaunted works of Art | H |
The master stroke is still her part | H |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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