Terminus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCDEEFFFFGHHGIFJJ IFKLMNOPQQRF BSBSTFTF| It is time to be old | A |
| To take in sail | B |
| The god of bounds | C |
| Who sets to seas a shore | D |
| Come to me in his fatal rounds | C |
| And said quot No more | D |
| No farther shoot | E |
| Thy broad ambitious branches and thy root | E |
| Fancy departs no more invent | F |
| Contract thy firmament | F |
| To compass of a tent | F |
| There's not enough for this and that | F |
| Make thy option which of two | G |
| Economize the failing river | H |
| Not the less revere the Giver | H |
| Leave the many and hold the few | G |
| Timely wise accept the terms | I |
| Soften the fall with wary foot | F |
| A little while | J |
| Still plan and smile | J |
| And fault of novel germs | I |
| Mature the unfallen fruit | F |
| Curse if thou wilt thy sires | K |
| Bad husbands of their fires | L |
| Who when they gave thee breath | M |
| Failed to bequeath | N |
| The needful sinew stark as once | O |
| The baresark marrow to thy bones | P |
| But left a legacy of ebbing veins | Q |
| Inconstant heat and nerveless reins | Q |
| Amid the Muses left thee deaf and dumb | R |
| Amid the gladiators halt and numb quot | F |
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| As the bird trims her to the gale | B |
| I trim myself to the storm of time | S |
| I man the rudder reef the sail | B |
| Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime | S |
| quot Lowly faithful banish fear | T |
| Right onward drive unharmed | F |
| The port well worth the cruise is near | T |
| And every wave is charmed quot | F |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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