The Day's Ration Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEFGHIJKLMNOPNQR SDTUVWXWYWZA2B2L| When I was born | A |
| From all the seas of strength Fate filled a chalice | B |
| Saying This be thy portion child this chalice | B |
| Less than a lily's thou shalt daily draw | C |
| From my great arteries nor less nor more | D |
| All substances the cunning chemist Time | E |
| Melts down into that liquor of my life | F |
| Friends foes joys fortunes beauty and disgust | G |
| And whether I am angry or content | H |
| Indebted or insulted loved or hurt | I |
| All he distils into sidereal wine | J |
| And brims my little cup heedless alas | K |
| Of all he sheds how little it will hold | L |
| How much runs over on the desert sands | M |
| If a new muse draw me with splendid ray | N |
| And I uplift myself into her heaven | O |
| The needs of the first sight absorb my blood | P |
| And all the following hours of the day | N |
| Drag a ridiculous age | Q |
| To day when friends approach and every hour | R |
| Brings book or starbright scroll of genius | S |
| The tiny cup will hold not a bead more | D |
| And all the costly liquor runs to waste | T |
| Nor gives the jealous time one diamond drop | U |
| So to be husbanded for poorer days | V |
| Why need I volumes if one word suffice | W |
| Why need I galleries when a pupil's draught | X |
| After the master's sketch fills and o'erfills | W |
| My apprehension Why should I roam | Y |
| Who cannot circumnavigate the sea | W |
| Of thoughts and things at home but still adjourn | Z |
| The nearest matters to another moon | A2 |
| Why see new men | B2 |
| Who have not understood the old | L |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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