Solution Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFFGGHHII JJKLLKMMNOPPQQRS TTTTTTUUVV LLWWXXDDYYXZZXA2B2 C2C2TTTTD2D2E2E2BB F2G2| I am the Muse who sung alway | A |
| By Jove at dawn of the first day | B |
| Star crowned sole sitting long I wrought | C |
| To fire the stagnant earth with thought | C |
| On spawning slime my song prevails | D |
| Wolves shed their fangs and dragons scales | D |
| Flushed in the sky the sweet May morn | E |
| Earth smiled with flowers and man was born | E |
| Then Asia yeaned her shepherd race | F |
| And Nile substructs her granite base | F |
| Tented Tartary columned Nile | G |
| And under vines on rocky isle | G |
| Or on wind blown sea marge bleak | H |
| Forward stepped the perfect Greek | H |
| That wit and joy might find a tongue | I |
| And earth grow civil HOMER Sung | I |
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| Flown to Italy from Greece | J |
| I brooded long and held my peace | J |
| For I am wont to sing uncalled | K |
| And in days of evil plight | L |
| Unlock doors of new delight | L |
| And sometimes mankind I appalled | K |
| With a bitter horoscope | M |
| With spasms of terror for balm of hope | M |
| Then by better thought I lead | N |
| Bards to speak what nations need | O |
| So I folded me in fears | P |
| And DANTE searched the triple spheres | P |
| Moulding nature at his will | Q |
| So shaped so coloured swift or still | Q |
| And sculptor like his large design | R |
| Etched on Alp and Apennine | S |
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| Seethed in mists of Penmanmaur | T |
| Taught by Plinlimmon's Druid power | T |
| England's genius filled all measure | T |
| Of heart and soul of strength and pleasure | T |
| Gave to the mind its emperor | T |
| And life was larger than before | T |
| Nor sequent centuries could hit | U |
| Orbit and sum of SHAKSPEARE's wit | U |
| The men who lived with him became | V |
| Poets for the air was fame | V |
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| Far in the North where polar night | L |
| Holds in check the frolic light | L |
| In trance upborne past mortal goal | W |
| The Swede EMANUEL leads the soul | W |
| Through snows above mines underground | X |
| The inks of Erebus he found | X |
| Rehearsed to men the damned wails | D |
| On which the seraph music sails | D |
| In spirit worlds he trod alone | Y |
| But walked the earth unmarked unknown | Y |
| The near by stander caught no sound | X |
| Yet they who listened far aloof | Z |
| Heard rendings of the skyey roof | Z |
| And felt beneath the quaking ground | X |
| And his air sown unheeded words | A2 |
| In the next age are flaming swords | B2 |
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| In newer days of war and trade | C2 |
| Romance forgot and faith decayed | C2 |
| When Science armed and guided war | T |
| And clerks the Janus gates unbar | T |
| When France where poet never grew | T |
| Halved and dealt the globe anew | T |
| GOETHE raised o'er joy and strife | D2 |
| Drew the firm lines of Fate and Life | D2 |
| And brought Olympian wisdom down | E2 |
| To court and mart to gown and town | E2 |
| Stooping his finger wrote in clay | B |
| The open secret of to day | B |
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| So bloom the unfading petals five | F2 |
| And verses that all verse outlive | G2 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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