Man And Woman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBDEEDBFFBBGGBHII H JKKJLMMLNOOPQRRQBSSB TUUT VWWVKXXKAccording to Maori mythology the god Tiki created Man by taking a piece of clay and moistening it with his own blood Woman was the offspring of a sunbeam and a sylvan echo | A |
THUS God made Man to cope with destiny | B |
Taking the common clay God moistened it | C |
With His red blood and so for ever lit | C |
That sombre grossness with divinity | B |
So Man for ever finds him in the mesh | D |
Of clogging earth and though divine hopes thrill | E |
And flush his leaping heart it faints for still | E |
His dreams are pinioned in the gyves of flesh | D |
Yet ever God's blood in him courses free | B |
And penetrated with eternal hope | F |
Up Evolution's long uneven slope | F |
Man lifts him from his sodden ancestry | B |
And though his eyes the far goal cannot see | B |
And half the terrors of the dark he knows | G |
Yet with an inward fire his courage glows | G |
He bears the torch of immortality | B |
But Woman from a memory had birth | H |
Into the forest's dignity of shade | I |
A sudden sunbeam groped a soft hand laid | I |
In silent benediction on the earth | H |
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Then filtered through the green a song forlorn | J |
Of some forgotten bird Lo in a mist | K |
Of love the sunbeam and the echo kissed | K |
And Woman sunlit memory was born | J |
So light and melody to her belong | L |
The sunlight in the dying echo blurred | M |
So Woman came a vision and a word | M |
From the unknown a sunbeam and a song | L |
So ever through the forest of the years | N |
Shall Man pursue and still pursue the gleam | O |
That wavers and is gone and through his dream | O |
The fainting echo of a song he hears | P |
And when at last his weary feet are led | Q |
Into the sacred glade and she stands there | R |
He takes her close all song and sunlit hair | R |
The gleam has faded and the song has fled | Q |
And though with blinded eyes he cannot see | B |
She haunts him like a word that he knows not | S |
That is not quite remembered nor forgot | S |
Some thought that hovers near a memory | B |
As out from Heaven she leans on earth there falls | T |
The sunbeam of her hair golden and fine | U |
And drops an echo of a voice divine | U |
A voice that ever vainly calls and calls | T |
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And though she spill a splendour and a fire | V |
Upon the dark her glory is unknown | W |
Behind the screen of self she dwells alone | W |
She cannot come as close as her desire | V |
So ever like a pale moon drowned in mist | K |
Her face is vague a barrier intervenes | X |
And ever from her loneliness she leans | X |
With waiting eyes all wistful to be kissed | K |
Arthur Henry Adams
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