Uriel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DDEEFGHHBBIIJKLLMMN OOBBDDFFPQ DDRSQQTTUUVVBBBBWWXX OO| It fell in the ancient periods | A |
| Which the brooding soul surveys | B |
| Or ever the wild Time coin'd itself | C |
| Into calendar months and days | B |
| - | |
| This was the lapse of Uriel | D |
| Which in Paradise befell | D |
| Once among the Pleiads walking | E |
| Sayd overheard the young gods talking | E |
| And the treason too long pent | F |
| To his ears was evident | G |
| The young deities discuss'd | H |
| Laws of form and metre just | H |
| Orb quintessence and sunbeams | B |
| What subsisteth and what seems | B |
| One with low tones that decide | I |
| And doubt and reverend use defied | I |
| With a look that solved the sphere | J |
| And stirr'd the devils everywhere | K |
| Gave his sentiment divine | L |
| Against the being of a line | L |
| 'Line in nature is not found | M |
| Unit and universe are round | M |
| In vain produced all rays return | N |
| Evil will bless and ice will burn ' | - |
| As Uriel spoke with piercing eye | O |
| A shudder ran around the sky | O |
| The stern old war gods shook their heads | B |
| The seraphs frown'd from myrtle beds | B |
| Seem'd to the holy festival | D |
| The rash word boded ill to all | D |
| The balance beam of Fate was bent | F |
| The bounds of good and ill were rent | F |
| Strong Hades could not keep his own | P |
| But all slid to confusion | Q |
| - | |
| A sad self knowledge withering fell | D |
| On the beauty of Uriel | D |
| In heaven once eminent the god | R |
| Withdrew that hour into his cloud | S |
| Whether doom'd to long gyration | Q |
| In the sea of generation | Q |
| Or by knowledge grown too bright | T |
| To hit the nerve of feebler sight | T |
| Straightway a forgetting wind | U |
| Stole over the celestial kind | U |
| And their lips the secret kept | V |
| If in ashes the fire seed slept | V |
| But now and then truth speaking things | B |
| Shamed the angels' veiling wings | B |
| And shrilling from the solar course | B |
| Or from fruit of chemic force | B |
| Procession of a soul in matter | W |
| Or the speeding change of water | W |
| Or out of the good of evil born | X |
| Came Uriel's voice of cherub scorn | X |
| And a blush tinged the upper sky | O |
| And the gods shook they knew not why | O |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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