Humanity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJBKLJJJJJAM JNOPQJRBNSBTUJNN| I dreamed I was a sculptor and had wrought | A |
| Out of a towering adamantine crag | B |
| A mighty figure stately giant limbed | C |
| And with the face of a Homeric god | D |
| Planted aloft upon the levelled cone | E |
| Of a vast tumulus that seemed to swell | F |
| Above the sinking outline of the view | G |
| As up from the dusk past firm fixed it stood | H |
| Full in the face of the resplendent morn | I |
| Against the deep of heaven all flecked with clouds | J |
| And I methought was glorying in my work | B |
| One large arm lay upon the powerful breast | K |
| The other held a scroll The ample head | L |
| Majestic in its dome like curvatures | J |
| Looked heedful out with full expectant eyes | J |
| Over the brightening world and in the lines | J |
| And gracious curves of nostrils and of lips | J |
| You traced the use of smiles But on the brows | J |
| There pained a weight and weariness of thought | A |
| And furrows spake of care Much too of doubt | M |
| Shadowed the meaning of the mighty face | J |
| Much was there also in its cast that seemed | N |
| Significant of a striving to believe | O |
| To be the liege of an ancestral faith | P |
| In things remote unsecular more the birth | Q |
| Of mystic than sciential lore and thence | J |
| But half assured itself | R |
| Such was my work | B |
| A formal type though dream designed it seemed | N |
| Of that great ultimate of manhood which | S |
| By daring hoping doing and enduring | B |
| Doubting divining still from age to age | T |
| Doth mould the world and lead it truthward on | U |
| Even through its seers its heroes and its kings | J |
| For all who saw it were constrained methought | N |
| To sigh as they looked up Humanity | N |
Charles Harpur
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