Quatrains Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DDEE FF G HIJI J KLMN O PQOQ R CSCS R TUVU W XMXM J YZA2A2 J B2B2II C2 ID2ID2 C2 IE2IE2 J F2C2F2C2 MG2 IIII J IIH2H2 I I2J2I2K2 L2 IIII J M2IM2I M N2O2N2O2 I C2C2P2P2 E Q2IQ2I R2 MMII S2 T2H2T2 S2 MIMI U2 R2R2V2V2 V2 S2R2S2R2 S2 IS2IS2 S2 IC2S2C2 W2 S2 SV2S2

S HA
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With beams December planets dartB
His cold eye truth and conduct scannedC
July was in his sunny heartB
October in his liberal handC
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A H-
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High was her heart and yet was well inclinedD
Her manners made of bounty well refinedD
Far capitals and marble courts her eye still seemed to seeE
Minstrels and kings and high born dames and of the best that beE
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'SUUM CUIQUE '-
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Wilt thou seal up the avenues of illF
Pay every debt as if God wrote the billF
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HUSHG
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Every thought is publicH
Every nook is wideI
Thy gossips spread each whisperJ
And the gods from side to sideI
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ORATORJ
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He who has no handsK
Perforce must use his tongueL
Foxes are so cunningM
Because they are not strongN
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ARTISTO
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Quit the hut frequent the palaceP
Reck not what the people sayQ
For still where'er the trees grow biggestO
Huntsmen find the easiest wayQ
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POETR
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Ever the Poet from the landC
Steers his bark and trims his sailS
Right out to sea his courses standC
New worlds to find in pinnace frailS
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POETR
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To clothe the fiery thoughtT
In simple words succeedsU
For still the craft of genius isV
To mask a king in weedsU
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BOTANISTW
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Go thou to thy learned taskX
I stay with the flowers of springM
Do thou of the ages askX
What me the flowers will bringM
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GARDENERJ
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True Bramin in the morning meadows wetY
Expound the Vedas of the violetZ
Or hid in vines peeping through many a loopA2
See the plum redden and the beurre stoopA2
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FORESTERJ
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He took the colour of his vestB2
From rabbit's coat or grouse's breastB2
For as the wood kinds lurk and hideI
So walks the woodman unespiedI
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NORTHMANC2
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The gale that wrecked you on the sandI
It helped my rowers to rowD2
The storm is my best galley handI
And drives me where I goD2
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FROM ALCUINC2
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The sea is the road of the boldI
Frontier of the wheat sown plainsE2
The pit wherein the streams are rolledI
And fountain of the rainsE2
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EXCELSIORJ
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Over his head were the maple budsF2
And over the tree was the moonC2
And over the moon were the starry studsF2
That drop from the angel's shoonC2
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BORROWINGM
FROM THE FRENCHG2
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Some of your hurts you have curedI
And the sharpest you still have survivedI
But what torments of grief you enduredI
From evils which never arrivedI
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NATUREJ
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Boon Nature yields each day a brag which we now first beholdI
And trains us on to slight the new as if it were the oldI
But blest is he who playing deep yet haply asks not whyH2
Too busied with the crowded hour to fear to live or dieH2
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FATEI
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Her planted eye to day controlsI2
Is in the morrow most at homeJ2
And sternly calls to being soulsI2
That curse her when they comeK2
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HOROSCOPEL2
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Ere he was born the stars of fateI
Plotted to make him rich and greatI
When from the womb the babe was loosedI
The gate of gifts behind him closedI
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POWERJ
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Cast the bantling on the rocksM2
Suckle him with the she wolf's teatI
Wintered with the hawk and foxM2
Power and speed be hands and feetI
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CLIMACTERICM
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I am not wiser for my ageN2
Nor skilful by my griefO2
Life loiters at the book's first pageN2
Ah could we turn the leafO2
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HERI CRAS HODIEI
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Shines the last age the next with hope is seenC2
To day slinks poorly off unmarked betweenC2
Future or Past no richer secret foldsP2
O friendless Present than thy bosom holdsP2
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MEMORYE
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Night dreams trace on Memory's wallQ2
Shadows of the thoughts of dayI
And thy fortunes as they fallQ2
The bias of the will betrayI
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LOVER2
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Love on his errand bound to goM
Can swim the flood and wade through snowM
Where way is none 'twill creep and windI
And eat through Alps its home to findI
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SACRIFICES2
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Though love repine and reason chafeT2
There came a voice without replyH2
''Tis man's perdition to be safeT2
When for the truth he ought to die '-
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PERICLESS2
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Well and wisely said the GreekM
Be thou faithful but not fondI
To the altar's foot thy fellow seekM
The Furies wait beyondI
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CASELLAU2
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Test of the poet is knowledge of loveR2
For Eros is older than Saturn or JoveR2
Never was poet of late or of yoreV2
Who was not tremulous with love loreV2
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SHAKSPEAREV2
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I see all human witsS2
Are measured but a fewR2
Unmeasured still my Shakspeare sitsS2
Lone as the blessed JewR2
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HAFIZS2
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Her passions the shy violetI
From Hafiz never hidesS2
Love longings of the raptured birdI
The bird to him confidesS2
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NATURE IN LEASTSS2
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As sings the pine tree in the windI
So sings in the wind a sprig of the pineC2
Her strength and soul has laughing FranceS2
Shed in each drop of wineC2
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GREEK TITLEW2
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'A new commandment ' said the smiling MuseS2
'I give my darling son Thou shalt not preach '-
Luther Fox Behmen Swedenborg grew paleS
And on the instant rosier clouds upboreV2
Hafiz and Shakspeare with their shining choirsS2

Ralph Waldo Emerson



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