The Rhodora Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDEDEFFGGBHBH| On Being Asked Whence Is The Flower | A |
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| In May when sea winds pierced our solitudes | B |
| I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods | B |
| Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook | C |
| To please the desert and the sluggish brook | C |
| The purple petals fallen in the pool | D |
| Made the black water with their beauty gay | E |
| Here might the red bird come his plumes to cool | D |
| And court the flower that cheapens his array | E |
| Rhodora if the sages ask thee why | F |
| This charm is wasted on the earth and sky | F |
| Tell them dear that if eyes were made for seeing | G |
| Then Beauty is its own excuse for being | G |
| Why thou wert there O rival of the rose | B |
| I never thought to ask I never knew | H |
| But in my simple ignorance suppose | B |
| The self same Power that brought me there brought you | H |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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