The Nun's Aspiration Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFFGGHHIIJJKK LLBBMMNNOOPPQQRROOSS TTUUVVWXW| The yesterday doth never smile | A |
| The day goes drudging through the while | A |
| Yet in the name of Godhead I | B |
| The morrow front and can defy | B |
| Though I am weak yet God when prayed | C |
| Cannot withhold his conquering aid | C |
| Ah me it was my childhood's thought | D |
| If He should make my web a blot | E |
| On life's fair picture of delight | F |
| My heart's content would find it right | F |
| But O these waves and leaves | G |
| When happy stoic Nature grieves | G |
| No human speech so beautiful | H |
| As their murmurs mine to lull | H |
| On this altar God hath built | I |
| I lay my vanity and guilt | I |
| Nor me can Hope or Passion urge | J |
| Hearing as now the lofty dirge | J |
| Which blasts of Northern mountains hymn | K |
| Nature's funeral high and dim | K |
| Sable pageantry of clouds | L |
| Mourning summer laid in shrouds | L |
| Many a day shall dawn and die | B |
| Many an angel wander by | B |
| And passing light my sunken turf | M |
| Moist perhaps by ocean surf | M |
| Forgotten amid splendid tombs | N |
| Yet wreathed and hid by summer blooms | N |
| On earth I dream I die to be | O |
| Time shake not thy bald head at me | O |
| I challenge thee to hurry past | P |
| Or for my turn to fly too fast | P |
| Think me not numbed or halt with age | Q |
| Or cares that earth to earth engage | Q |
| Caught with love's cord of twisted beams | R |
| Or mired by climate's gross extremes | R |
| I tire of shams I rush to be | O |
| I pass with yonder comet free | O |
| Pass with the comet into space | S |
| Which mocks thy aeons to embrace | S |
| Aeons which tardily unfold | T |
| Realm beyond realm extent untold | T |
| No early morn no evening late | U |
| Realms self upheld disdaining Fate | U |
| Whose shining sons too great for fame | V |
| Never heard thy weary name | V |
| Nor lives the tragic bard to say | W |
| How drear the part I held in one | X |
| How lame the other limped away | W |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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