By An Evolutionist Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FG H FG IAIA ACAC| By an Evolutionist | A |
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| The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man | B |
| And the man said Am I your debtor | C |
| And the Lord Not yet but make it as clean as you can | B |
| And then I will let you a better | C |
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| If my body come from brutes my soul uncertain or a fable | D |
| Why not bask amid the senses while the sun of morning shines | E |
| I the finer brute rejoicing in my hounds and in my stable | D |
| Youth and health and birth and wealth and choice of women and of wines | E |
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| What hast thou done for me grim Old Age save breaking my bones on the rack | F |
| Would I had past in the morning that looks so bright from afar | G |
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| OLD AGE | H |
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| Done for thee starved the wild beast that was linkt with thee eighty years back | F |
| Less weight now for the ladder of heaven that hangs on a star | G |
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| If my body come from brutes tho somewhat finer than their own | I |
| I am heir and this my kingdom Shall the royal voice be mute | A |
| No but if the rebel subject seek to drag me from the throne | I |
| Hold the sceptre Human Soul and rule thy province of the brute | A |
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| I have climb d to the snows of Age and I gaze at a field in the Past | A |
| Where I sank with the body at times in the sloughs of a low desire | C |
| But I hear no yelp of the beast and the Man is quiet at last | A |
| As he stands on the heights of his life with a glimpse of a height that is higher | C |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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