To Rhea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEE FFFFFFFFFF CCFFFFDDGGFFHIJKLLMM EE FFFNFNFFOOPPDDDDPPPF FFFI IDDDDDDDDII| Thee dear friend a brother soothes | A |
| Not with flatteries but truths | B |
| Which tarnish not but purify | C |
| To light which dims the morning's eye | C |
| I have come from the spring woods | D |
| From the fragrant solitudes | D |
| Listen what the poplar tree | E |
| And murmuring waters counselled me | E |
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| If with love thy heart has burned | F |
| If thy love is unreturned | F |
| Hide thy grief within thy breast | F |
| Though it tear thee unexpressed | F |
| For when love has once departed | F |
| From the eyes of the false hearted | F |
| And one by one has torn off quite | F |
| The bandages of purple light | F |
| Though thou weft the loveliest | F |
| Form the Soul had ever dressed | F |
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| Thou shalt seem in each reply | C |
| A vixen to his altered eye | C |
| Thy softest pleadings seem too bold | F |
| Thy praying lute shall seem to scold | F |
| Though thou kept the straightest road | F |
| Yet thou errest far and broad | F |
| But thou shalt do as do the gods | D |
| In their cloudless periods | D |
| For of this lore be thou sure | G |
| Though thou forget the gods secure | G |
| Forget never their command | F |
| But make the statute of this land | F |
| As they lead so follow all | H |
| Ever have done ever shall | I |
| Warning to the blind and deaf | J |
| 'Tis written on the iron leaf | K |
| Who drinks of Cupid's nectar cup | L |
| Loveth downward and not up | L |
| Therefore who loves of gods or men | M |
| Shall not by the same be loved again | M |
| His sweetheart's idolatry | E |
| Falls in turn a new degree | E |
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| When a god is once beguiled | F |
| By beauty of a mortal child | F |
| And by her radiant youth delighted | F |
| He is not fooled but warily knoweth | N |
| His love shall never be requited | F |
| And thus the wise Immortal doeth | N |
| 'Tis his study and delight | F |
| To bless that creature day and night | F |
| From all evils to defend her | O |
| In her lap to pour all splendor | O |
| To ransack earth for riches rare | P |
| And fetch her stars to deck her hair | P |
| He mixes music with her thoughts | D |
| And saddens her with heavenly doubts | D |
| All grace all good his great heart knows | D |
| Profuse in love the king bestows | D |
| Saying Hearken Earth Sea Air | P |
| This monument of my despair | P |
| Build I to the All Good All Fair | P |
| Not for a private good | F |
| But I from my beatitude | F |
| Albeit scorned as none was scorned | F |
| Adorn her as was none adorned | F |
| I make this maiden an ensample | I |
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| To nature through her kingdoms ample | I |
| Whereby to model newer races | D |
| Statelier forms and fairer faces | D |
| To carry man to new degrees | D |
| Of power and of comeliness | D |
| These presents be the hostages | D |
| Which I pawn for my release | D |
| See to thyself O universe | D |
| Thou art better and not worse | D |
| And the god having given all | I |
| Is freed forever from his thrall | I |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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