Charles Harpur

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Humanity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJBKLJJJJJAM JNOPQJRBNSBTUJNN

I dreamed I was a sculptor and had wroughtA
Out of a towering adamantine cragB
A mighty figure stately giant limbedC
And with the face of a Homeric godD
Planted aloft upon the levelled coneE
Of a vast tumulus that seemed to swellF
Above the sinking outline of the viewG
As up from the dusk past firm fixed it stoodH
Full in the face of the resplendent mornI
Against the deep of heaven all flecked with cloudsJ
And I methought was glorying in my workB
One large arm lay upon the powerful breastK
The other held a scroll The ample headL
Majestic in its dome like curvaturesJ
Looked heedful out with full expectant eyesJ
Over the brightening world and in the linesJ
And gracious curves of nostrils and of lipsJ
You traced the use of smiles But on the browsJ
There pained a weight and weariness of thoughtA
And furrows spake of care Much too of doubtM
Shadowed the meaning of the mighty faceJ
Much was there also in its cast that seemedN
Significant of a striving to believeO
To be the liege of an ancestral faithP
In things remote unsecular more the birthQ
Of mystic than sciential lore and thenceJ
But half assured itselfR
Such was my workB
A formal type though dream designed it seemedN
Of that great ultimate of manhood whichS
By daring hoping doing and enduringB
Doubting divining still from age to ageT
Doth mould the world and lead it truthward onU
Even through its seers its heroes and its kingsJ
For all who saw it were constrained methoughtN
To sigh as they looked up HumanityN

Charles Harpur



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