The Past Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAAACCDDEECCCFFGHIH H

The debt is paidA
The verdict saidB
The Furies laidA
The plague is stayedA
All fortunes madeA
Turn the key and bolt the doorC
Sweet is death forevermoreC
Nor haughty hope nor swart chagrinD
Nor murdering hate can enter inD
All is now secure and fastE
Not the gods can shake the PastE
Flies to the adamantine doorC
Bolted down forevermoreC
None can reenter thereC
No thief so politicF
No Satan with a royal trickF
Steal in by window chink or holeG
To bind or unbind add what lackedH
Insert a leaf or forge a nameI
New face or finish what is packedH
Alter or mend eternal FactH

Ralph Waldo Emerson



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