The Miracle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCCCDDEEFFGGHHCC IIJJKKLLMNOOMMPP| I have trod this path a hundred times | A |
| With idle footsteps crooning rhymes | A |
| I know each nest and web worm's tent | B |
| The fox hole which the woodchucks rent | B |
| Maple and oak the old Divan | C |
| Self planted twice like the banian | C |
| I know not why I came again | C |
| Unless to learn it ten times ten | C |
| To read the sense the woods impart | D |
| You must bring the throbbing heart | D |
| Love is aye the counterforce | E |
| Terror and Hope and wild Remorse | E |
| Newest knowledge fiery thought | F |
| Or Duty to grand purpose wrought | F |
| Wandering yester morn the brake | G |
| I reached this heath beside the lake | G |
| And oh the wonder of the power | H |
| The deeper secret of the hour | H |
| Nature the supplement of man | C |
| His hidden sense interpret can | C |
| What friend to friend cannot convey | I |
| Shall the dumb bird instructed say | I |
| Passing yonder oak I heard | J |
| Sharp accents of my woodland bird | J |
| I watched the singer with delight | K |
| But mark what changed my joy to fright | K |
| When that bird sang I gave the theme | L |
| That wood bird sang my last night's dream | L |
| A brown wren was the Daniel | M |
| That pierced my trance its drift to tell | N |
| Knew my quarrel how and why | O |
| Published it to lake and sky | O |
| Told every word and syllable | M |
| In his flippant chirping babble | M |
| All my wrath and all my shames | P |
| Nay God is witness gave the names | P |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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