Woman And The Weed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFF GGHHIIGG JJKKLLMM NNOOPPQQ RRHHGGJJSSKKJJSS TTUUV WW XXOOYZHHFOUNDED ON A NEW ZEALAND MYTH | A |
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In the Morning of Time when his fortunes began | B |
How bleak how un Greek was the Nature of Man | B |
From his wigwam if ever he ventured to roam | C |
There was nobody waiting to welcome him home | C |
For the Man had been made but the woman had NOT | D |
And Earth was a highly detestable spot | D |
Man hated his neighbours they met and they scowled | E |
They did not converse but they struggled and howled | E |
For Man had no tact he would ne'er take a hint | F |
And his notions he backed with a hatchet of flint | F |
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So Man was alone and he wished he could see | G |
On the Earth some one like him but fairer than he | G |
With locks like the red gold a smile like the sun | H |
To welcome him back when his hunting was done | H |
And he sighed for a voice that should answer him still | I |
Like the affable Echo he heard on the hill | I |
That should answer him softly and always agree | G |
AND OH Man reflected HOW NICE IT WOULD BE | G |
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So he prayed to the Gods and they stooped to his prayer | J |
And they spoke to the Sun on his way through the air | J |
And he married the Echo one fortunate morn | K |
And Woman their beautiful daughter was born | K |
The daughter of Sunshine and Echo she came | L |
With a voice like a song with a face like a flame | L |
With a face like a flame and a voice like a song | M |
And happy was Man but it was not for long | M |
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For weather's a painfully changeable thing | N |
Not always the child of the Echo would sing | N |
And the face of the Sun may be hidden with mist | O |
And his child can be terribly cross if she list | O |
And unfortunate Man had to learn with surprise | P |
That a frown's not peculiar to masculine eyes | P |
That the sweetest of voices can scold and can sneer | Q |
And cannot be answered like men with a spear | Q |
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So Man went and called to the Gods in his woe | R |
And they answered him 'Sir you would needs have it so | R |
And the thing must go on as the thing has begun | H |
She's immortal your child of the Echo and Sun | H |
But we'll send you another and fairer is she | G |
This maiden with locks that are flowing and free | G |
This maiden so gentle so kind and so fair | J |
With a flower like a star in the night of her hair | J |
With her eyes like the smoke that is misty and blue | S |
With her heart that is heavenly and tender and true | S |
She will die in the night but no need you should mourn | K |
You shall bury her body and thence shall be born | K |
A weed that is green that is fragrant and fair | J |
With a flower like the star in the night of her hair | J |
And the leaves must ye burn till they offer to you | S |
Soft smoke like her eyes that are misty and blue | S |
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'And the smoke shall ye breathe and no more shall ye fret | T |
But the child of the Echo and Sun shall forget | T |
Shall forget all the trouble and torment she brings | U |
Shall bethink ye of none but delectable things | U |
And the sound of the wars with your brethren shall cease | V |
While ye smoke by the camp fire the great pipe of peace ' | - |
So the last state of Man was by no means the worst | W |
The second gift softened the sting of the first | W |
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Nor the child of the Echo and Sun doth he heed | X |
When he dreams with the Maid that was changed to the weed | X |
Though the Echo be silent the Sun in a mist | O |
The Maid is the fairest that ever was kissed | O |
And when tempests are over and ended the rain | Y |
And the child of the Sunshine is sunny again | Z |
He comes back glad at heart and again is at one | H |
With the changeable child of the Echo and Sun | H |
Andrew Lang
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