Peter's Field Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGHG IHIF JKJK LMLM NOPQ RSTS KUKU VKWK| Knows he who tills this lonely field | A |
| To reap its scanty corn | B |
| What mystic fruit his acres yield | A |
| At midnight and at morn | B |
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| That field by spirits bad and good | C |
| By Hell and Heaven is haunted | D |
| And every rood in the hemlock wood | C |
| I know is ground enchanted | E |
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| In the long sunny afternoon | F |
| The plain was full of ghosts | G |
| I wandered up I wandered down | H |
| Beset by pensive hosts | G |
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| For in those lonely grounds the sun | I |
| Shines not as on the town | H |
| In nearer arcs his journeys run | I |
| And nearer stoops the moon | F |
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| There in a moment I have seen | J |
| The buried Past arise | K |
| The fields of Thessaly grew green | J |
| Old gods forsook the skies | K |
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| I cannot publish in my rhyme | L |
| What pranks the greenwood played | M |
| It was the Carnival of time | L |
| And Ages went or stayed | M |
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| To me that spectral nook appeared | N |
| The mustering Day of Doom | O |
| And round me swarmed in shadowy troop | P |
| Things past and things to come | Q |
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| The darkness haunteth me elsewhere | R |
| There I am full of light | S |
| In every whispering leaf I hear | T |
| More sense than sages write | S |
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| Underwoods were full of pleasance | K |
| All to each in kindness bend | U |
| And every flower made obeisance | K |
| As a man unto his friend | U |
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| Far seen the river glides below | V |
| Tossing one sparkle to the eyes | K |
| I catch thy meaning wizard wave | W |
| The River of my Life replies | K |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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