To-day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDE FFGGHHIIJJ| I rake no coffined clay nor publish wide | A |
| The resurrection of departed pride | A |
| Safe in their ancient crannies dark and deep | B |
| Let kings and conquerors saints and soldiers sleep | B |
| Late in the world too late perchance for fame | C |
| Just late enough to reap abundant blame | C |
| I choose a novel theme a bold abuse | D |
| Of critic charters an unlaurelled Muse | E |
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| Old mouldy men and books and names and lands | F |
| Disgust my reason and defile my hands | F |
| I had as lief respect an ancient shoe | G |
| As love old things for age and hate the new | G |
| I spurn the Past my mind disdains its nod | H |
| Nor kneels in homage to so mean a God | H |
| I laugh at those who while they gape and gaze | I |
| The bald antiquity of China praise | I |
| Youth is whatever cynic tubs pretend | J |
| The fault that boys and nations soonest mend | J |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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