Xenophanes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEBBEFGHBIJKLMMM| By fate not option frugal Nature gave | A |
| One scent to hyson and to wall flower | B |
| One sound to pine groves and to waterfalls | C |
| One aspect to the desert and the lake | D |
| It was her stern necessity all things | E |
| Are of one pattern made bird beast and flower | B |
| Song picture form space thought and character | B |
| Deceive us seeming to be many things | E |
| And are but one Beheld far off they part | F |
| As God and devil bring them to the mind | G |
| They dull its edge with their monotony | H |
| To know one element explore another | B |
| And in the second reappears the first | I |
| The specious panorama of a year | J |
| But multiplies the image of a day | K |
| A belt of mirrors round a taper's flame | L |
| And universal Nature through her vast | M |
| And crowded whole an infinite paroquet | M |
| Repeats one note | M |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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