Masefield, Poet And Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAABCCDE FGFFFEECC HIJJIKKFF FLFFLMMEE| He comes as a man who has lived 'mid men | A |
| With the gloss and the polish off | B |
| And truth flows free from his ready pen | A |
| For he looked on life with a keen eye then | A |
| And he found small cause to scoff | B |
| And he loved the sea and its ships of sail | C |
| And a sailor's way and a sailor's tale | C |
| And he looked on the world as an epoch's close | D |
| And found what none but the venturer knows | E |
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| He comes as a poet that the gods adopt | F |
| With songs of the wild and the free | G |
| Shorn of the snivelling cadence dropped | F |
| From the lips of the sophist snugly propped | F |
| On the throne of a pink settee | F |
| And he loves the land and the flowering wealds | E |
| The west wind's song and the daffodil fields | E |
| As he loves the song of a howling gale | C |
| Caught in the cup of a bellying sail | C |
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| And what shall he say of us who comes here | H |
| This man who has lived as a man | I |
| He shall follow the way of the pioneer | J |
| And our own high venturers blind to fear | J |
| Who strove when the race began | I |
| And the digger's way and the drover's way | K |
| And the rough rude life of an olden day | K |
| And the track of the lonely Overland | F |
| He shall follow them all and understand | F |
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| And his keen mind's eye shall pierce the gilt | F |
| That would cover the old rough life | L |
| He shall sense the soul of a young land built | F |
| In the days when life had a strong rude lilt | F |
| And a rhythm tuned to strife | L |
| He shall trace again in the Anzac's soul | M |
| The spirit that made this young land whole | M |
| And so as he sees shall he blame or praise | E |
| By a standard won in the world's highways | E |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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