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Letters

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 (Boston) – 1882 (Concord)

Every day brings a ship,
Every ship brings a word;
Well for those who have no fear,
Looking seaward well assured
That the word the vessel brings
Is the word they wish to hear.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme ABCDEF
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 178
Words 36
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. more…

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