The Past Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAACCDDEECCCFFGHIH H| The debt is paid | A |
| The verdict said | B |
| The Furies laid | A |
| The plague is stayed | A |
| All fortunes made | A |
| Turn the key and bolt the door | C |
| Sweet is death forevermore | C |
| Nor haughty hope nor swart chagrin | D |
| Nor murdering hate can enter in | D |
| All is now secure and fast | E |
| Not the gods can shake the Past | E |
| Flies to the adamantine door | C |
| Bolted down forevermore | C |
| None can reenter there | C |
| No thief so politic | F |
| No Satan with a royal trick | F |
| Steal in by window chink or hole | G |
| To bind or unbind add what lacked | H |
| Insert a leaf or forge a name | I |
| New face or finish what is packed | H |
| Alter or mend eternal Fact | H |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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