This is an analysis of Merops by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

What care I, so they stand the same,—
Things of the heavenly mind,—…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa bcbc adad
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1111110100 10010010 110100101 10101 11011101 11010100 11110101 1010100 11010101 1100101 110010101 111101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12