Tact Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED EFEG HIJI KLAL MAIA ALNL| What boots it thy virtue | A |
| What profit thy parts | B |
| While one thing thou lackest | A |
| The art of all arts | B |
| The only credentials | C |
| Passport to success | D |
| Opens castle and parlor | E |
| Address man Address | D |
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| The maiden in danger | E |
| Was saved by the swain | F |
| His stout arm restored her | E |
| To Broadway again | G |
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| The maid would reward him | H |
| Gay company come | I |
| They laugh she laughs with them | J |
| He is moonstruck and dumb | I |
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| This clenches the bargain | K |
| Sails out of the bay | L |
| Gets the vote in the Senate | A |
| Spite of Webster and Clay | L |
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| Has for genius no mercy | M |
| For speeches no heed | A |
| It lurks in the eyebeam | I |
| It leaps to its deed | A |
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| Church tavern and market | A |
| Bed and board it will sway | L |
| It has no to morrow | N |
| It ends with to day | L |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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