Man And Woman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBDEEDBFFBBGGBHII H JKKJLMMLNOOPQRRQBSSB TUUT VWWVKXXK

According 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 echoA
THUS God made Man to cope with destinyB
Taking the common clay God moistened itC
With His red blood and so for ever litC
That sombre grossness with divinityB
So Man for ever finds him in the meshD
Of clogging earth and though divine hopes thrillE
And flush his leaping heart it faints for stillE
His dreams are pinioned in the gyves of fleshD
Yet ever God's blood in him courses freeB
And penetrated with eternal hopeF
Up Evolution's long uneven slopeF
Man lifts him from his sodden ancestryB
And though his eyes the far goal cannot seeB
And half the terrors of the dark he knowsG
Yet with an inward fire his courage glowsG
He bears the torch of immortalityB
But Woman from a memory had birthH
Into the forest's dignity of shadeI
A sudden sunbeam groped a soft hand laidI
In silent benediction on the earthH
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Then filtered through the green a song forlornJ
Of some forgotten bird Lo in a mistK
Of love the sunbeam and the echo kissedK
And Woman sunlit memory was bornJ
So light and melody to her belongL
The sunlight in the dying echo blurredM
So Woman came a vision and a wordM
From the unknown a sunbeam and a songL
So ever through the forest of the yearsN
Shall Man pursue and still pursue the gleamO
That wavers and is gone and through his dreamO
The fainting echo of a song he hearsP
And when at last his weary feet are ledQ
Into the sacred glade and she stands thereR
He takes her close all song and sunlit hairR
The gleam has faded and the song has fledQ
And though with blinded eyes he cannot seeB
She haunts him like a word that he knows notS
That is not quite remembered nor forgotS
Some thought that hovers near a memoryB
As out from Heaven she leans on earth there fallsT
The sunbeam of her hair golden and fineU
And drops an echo of a voice divineU
A voice that ever vainly calls and callsT
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And though she spill a splendour and a fireV
Upon the dark her glory is unknownW
Behind the screen of self she dwells aloneW
She cannot come as close as her desireV
So ever like a pale moon drowned in mistK
Her face is vague a barrier intervenesX
And ever from her loneliness she leansX
With waiting eyes all wistful to be kissedK

Arthur Henry Adams



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