The Song Of Lamech Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFFAB GHIJKLMN OBPQRSTUVJWTXYWZIA2B 2C2D2E2XF2C2E2E2FG2H 2I2E2F2J B J2K2L2F2D2GSE2J2M2N2 O2P2Q2TR2S2D2T2U2V2W 2B2X2 B D2E2JKY2ZY2X2OBF J2Z2F2Z2A3J2OB B3F2C3Z2Z2Hearken to me ye mothers of my tent | A |
Ye wives of Lamech hearken to my speech | B |
Adah let Jubal hither lead his goats | C |
And Tubal Cain O Zillah hush the forge | D |
Naamah her wheel shall ply beside and thou | E |
My Jubal touch before I speak the string | F |
Yea Jubal touch before I speak the string | F |
Hear ye my voice beloved of my tent | A |
Dear ones of Lamech listen to my speech | B |
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For Eve made answer Cain my son my own | G |
O if I cursed thee O my child I sinned | H |
And He that heard me heard and said me nay | I |
My first my only one thou shalt not go | J |
And Adam answered also Cain my son | K |
He that is gone forgiveth we forgive | L |
Rob not thy mother of two sons at once | M |
My child abide with us and comfort us | N |
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Hear ye my voice Adah and Zillah hear | O |
Ye wives of Lamech listen to my speech | B |
For Cain replied not But an hour more sat | P |
Where the night through he sat his knit brows seen | Q |
Scarce seen amid the foldings of his limbs | R |
But when the sun was bright upon the field | S |
To Adam still and Eve still waiting by | T |
And weeping lift he up his voice and spake | U |
Cain said The sun is risen upon the earth | V |
The day demands my going and I go | J |
As you from Paradise so I from you | W |
As you to exile into exile I | T |
My father and my mother I depart | X |
As betwixt you and Paradise of old | Y |
So betwixt me my parents now and you | W |
Cherubim I discern and in their hand | Z |
A flaming sword that turneth every way | I |
To keep the way of my one tree of life | A2 |
The way my spirit yearns to of my love | B2 |
Yet not O Adam and O Eve fear not | C2 |
For He that asked me Where is Abel He | D2 |
Who called me cursed from the earth and said | E2 |
A fugitive and vagabond thou art | X |
He also said when fear had slain my soul | F2 |
There shall not touch thee man nor beast Fear not | C2 |
Lo I have spoke with God and He hath said | E2 |
Fear not and let me go as He hath said | E2 |
Cain also said O Jubal touch thy string | F |
Moreover in the darkness of my mind | G2 |
When the night's night of misery was most black | H2 |
A little star came twinkling up within | I2 |
And in myself I had a guide that led | E2 |
And in myself had knowledge of a soul | F2 |
Fear not O Adam and O Eve I go | J |
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Children of Lamech listen to my speech | B |
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For when the years were multiplied and Cain | J2 |
Eastward of Eden in this land of Nod | K2 |
Had sons and sons of sons and sons of them | L2 |
Enoch and Irad and Mehujael | F2 |
My father and my children's grandsire he | D2 |
It came to pass that Cain who dwelt alone | G |
Met Adam at the nightfall in the field | S |
Who fell upon his neck and wept and said | E2 |
My son has God not spoken to thee Cain | J2 |
And Cain replied when weeping loosed his voice | M2 |
My dreams are double O my father good | N2 |
And evil Terror to my soul by night | O2 |
And agony by day when Abel stands | P2 |
A dead black shade and speaks not neither looks | Q2 |
Nor makes me any answer when I cry | T |
Curse me but let me know thou art alive | R2 |
But comfort also like a whisper comes | S2 |
In visions of a deeper sleep when he | D2 |
Abel as him we knew yours once and mine | T2 |
Comes with a free forgiveness in his face | U2 |
Seeming to speak solicitous for words | V2 |
And wearing ere he go the old first look | W2 |
Of unsuspecting unforeboding love | B2 |
Three nights are gone I saw him thus my Sire | X2 |
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Dear ones of Lamech listen to my speech | B |
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For Adam said Three nights ago to me | D2 |
Came Abel in my sleep as thou hast said | E2 |
And spake and bade Arise my father go | J |
Where in the land of exile dwells thy son | K |
Say to my brother Abel bids thee come | Y2 |
Abel would have thee and lay thou thy hand | Z |
My father on his head that he may come | Y2 |
Am I not weary father for this hour | X2 |
Hear ye my voice Adah and Zillah hear | O |
Children of Lamech listen to my speech | B |
And son of Zillah sound thy solemn string | F |
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For Adam laid upon the head of Cain | J2 |
His hand and Cain bowed down and slept and died | Z2 |
And a deep sleep on Adam also fell | F2 |
And in his slumber's deepest he beheld | Z2 |
Standing before the gate of Paradise | A3 |
With Abel hand in hand our father Cain | J2 |
Hear ye my voice Adah and Zillah hear | O |
Ye wives of Lamech listen to my speech | B |
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Though to his wounding he did slay a man | B3 |
Yea and a young man to his hurt he slew | F2 |
Fear not ye wives nor sons of Lamech fear | C3 |
If unto Cain was safety given and rest | Z2 |
Shall Lamech surely and his people die | Z2 |
Arthur Hugh Clough
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