The Past Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAACCDDEECCCFFGHIH HThe 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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