And When I Am Entombed In My Place,

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



And when I am entombed in my place,
Be it remembered of a single man,
He never, though he dearly loved his race,
For fear of human eyes swerved from his plan.
  
  
  
Oh what is Heaven but the fellowship
Of minds that each can stand against the world
By its own meek and incorruptible will?
  
  
  
The days pass over me
And I am still the same;
The aroma of my life is gone
With the flower with which it came.
  
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABAB XXX XCXC
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 410
Words 88
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 3, 4

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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