Wealth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEFDGDGDHDHDDDDD DIIJKDDKDLLDDMMNNOOP PDDDDQQDD| Who shall tell what did befall | A |
| Far away in time when once | B |
| Over the lifeless ball | A |
| Hung idle stars and suns | C |
| What god the element obeyed | D |
| Wings of what wind the lichen bore | E |
| Wafting the puny seeds of power | F |
| Which lodged in rock the rock abrade | D |
| And well the primal pioneer | G |
| Knew the strong task to it assigned | D |
| Patient through Heaven's enormous year | G |
| To build in matter home for mind | D |
| From air the creeping centuries drew | H |
| The matted thicked low and wide | D |
| This must the leaves of ages strew | H |
| The granite slab to clothe and hide | D |
| Ere wheat can wave its golden pride | D |
| What smiths and in what furnace rolled | D |
| In dizzy aeons dim and mute | D |
| The reeling brain can ill compute | D |
| Copper and iron lead and gold | D |
| What oldest star the fame can save | I |
| Of races perishing to pave | I |
| The planet with a floor of lime | J |
| Dust is their pyramid and mole | K |
| Who saw that ferns and palms were pressed | D |
| Under the trembling mountain's breast | D |
| In the safe herbal of the coal | K |
| But when the quarried means were piled | D |
| All is waste and worthless till | L |
| Arrives the wise selecting will | L |
| And out of slime and chaos Wit | D |
| Draws the threads of fair and fit | D |
| Then temples rose and towns and marts | M |
| The shop of toil the hall of arts | M |
| Then flew the sail across the seas | N |
| To feed the North from tropic trees | N |
| The storm wind wove the torrent span | O |
| Where they were bid the rivers ran | O |
| New slaves fulfilled the poet's dream | P |
| Galvanic wire strong shouldered steam | P |
| Then docks were built and crops were stored | D |
| And ingots added to the hoard | D |
| But though light hearted man forget | D |
| Remembering Matter pays her debt | D |
| Still though her motes and masses draw | Q |
| Electric thrills and ties of Law | Q |
| Which bind the strength of Nature wild | D |
| To the conscience of a child | D |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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