Song Of Nature Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGF HIJI KHKL KMNM KOEO PQPQ RSTS KMKM UVSV WOXO YZYZ AA2B2A2 C2D2E2D2 F2G2H2G2 I2J2K2J2 SL2VL2 H2M2N2O2 P2Q2H2R2 FH2S2H2 XQXQMine are the night and morning | A |
The pits of air the gulf of space | B |
The sportive sun the gibbous moon | C |
The innumerable days | D |
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I hid in the solar glory | E |
I am dumb in the pealing song | F |
I rest on the pitch of the torrent | G |
In slumber I am strong | F |
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No numbers have counted my tallies | H |
No tribes my house can fill | I |
I sit by the shining Fount of Life | J |
And pour the deluge still | I |
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And ever by delicate powers | K |
Gathering along the centuries | H |
From race on race the rarest flowers | K |
My wreath shall nothing miss | L |
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And many a thousand summers | K |
My apples ripened well | M |
And light from meliorating stars | N |
With firmer glory fell | M |
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I wrote the past in characters | K |
Of rock and fire the scroll | O |
The building in the coral sea | E |
The planting of the coal | O |
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And thefts from satellites and rings | P |
And broken stars I drew | Q |
And out of spent and aged things | P |
I formed the world anew | Q |
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What time the gods kept carnival | R |
Tricked out in star and flower | S |
And in cramp elf and saurian forms | T |
They swathed their too much power | S |
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Time and Thought were my surveyors | K |
They laid their courses well | M |
They boiled the sea and baked the layers | K |
Or granite marl and shell | M |
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But he the man child glorious | U |
Where tarries he the while | V |
The rainbow shines his harbinger | S |
The sunset gleams his smile | V |
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My boreal lights leap upward | W |
Forthright my planets roll | O |
And still the man child is not born | X |
The summit of the whole | O |
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Must time and tide forever run | Y |
Will never my winds go sleep in the west | Z |
Will never my wheels which whirl the sun | Y |
And satellites have rest | Z |
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Too much of donning and doffing | A |
Too slow the rainbow fades | A2 |
I weary of my robe of snow | B2 |
My leaves and my cascades | A2 |
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I tire of globes and races | C2 |
Too long the game is played | D2 |
What without him is summer's pomp | E2 |
Or winter's frozen shade | D2 |
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I travail in pain for him | F2 |
My creatures travail and wait | G2 |
His couriers come by squadrons | H2 |
He comes not to the gate | G2 |
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Twice I have moulded an image | I2 |
And thrice outstretched my hand | J2 |
Made one of day and one of night | K2 |
And one of the salt sea sand | J2 |
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One in a Judaean manger | S |
And one by Avon stream | L2 |
One over against the mouths of Nile | V |
And one in the Academe | L2 |
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I moulded kings and saviours | H2 |
And bards o'er kings to rule | M2 |
But fell the starry influence short | N2 |
The cup was never full | O2 |
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Yet whirl the glowing wheels once more | P2 |
And mix the bowl again | Q2 |
Seethe fate the ancient elements | H2 |
Heat cold wet dry and peace and pain | R2 |
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Let war and trade and creeds and song | F |
Blend ripen race on race | H2 |
The sunburnt world a man shall breed | S2 |
Of all the zones and countless days | H2 |
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No ray is dimmed no atom worn | X |
My oldest force is good as new | Q |
And the fresh rose on yonder thorn | X |
Gives back the bending heavens in dew | Q |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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