Walden Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE DFDF GHGH DIDI JKJ LMLM DNDN ODOD PDPD FHFH QHQH| In my garden three ways meet | A |
| Thrice the spot is blest | B |
| Hermit thrush comes there to build | C |
| Carrier doves to nest | B |
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| There broad armed oaks the copses' maze | D |
| The cold sea wind detain | E |
| Here sultry Summer overstays | D |
| When Autumn chills the plain | E |
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| Self sown my stately garden grows | D |
| The winds and wind blown seed | F |
| Cold April rain and colder snows | D |
| My hedges plant and feed | F |
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| From mountains far and valleys near | G |
| The harvests sown to day | H |
| Thrive in all weathers without fear | G |
| Wild planters plant away | H |
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| In cities high the careful crowds | D |
| Of woe worn mortals darkling go | I |
| But in these sunny solitudes | D |
| My quiet roses blow | I |
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| Methought the sky looked scornful down | J |
| On all was base in man | K |
| And airy tongues did taunt the town | J |
| 'Achieve our peace who can ' | - |
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| What need I holier dew | L |
| Than Walden's haunted wave | M |
| Distilled from heaven's alembic blue | L |
| Steeped in each forest cave | M |
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| If Thought unlock her mysteries | D |
| If Friendship on me smile | N |
| I walk in marble galleries | D |
| I talk with kings the while | N |
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| How drearily in College hall | O |
| The Doctor stretched the hours | D |
| But in each pause we heard the call | O |
| Of robins out of doors | D |
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| The air is wise the wind thinks well | P |
| And all through which it blows | D |
| If plants or brain if egg or shell | P |
| Or bird or biped knows | D |
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| And oft at home 'mid tasks I heed | F |
| I heed how wears the day | H |
| We must not halt while fiercely speed | F |
| The spans of life away | H |
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| What boots it here of Thebes or Rome | Q |
| Or lands of Eastern day | H |
| In forests I am still at home | Q |
| And there I cannot stray | H |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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