Manifesto Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BC DEFG HIJK LMNM MO A PMMQR A KCQOSTQUV MTWMVXY Y TTOW HITZA2WB2HY HHWYI C2YD2 E2B2WB2MMF2B2 M C2IB2YWIG2G2 H2G2G2HG2HG2I G2HMW Y HB2MWI2G2 NWB2 TG2HG2YY J2WK2MMG2YWTG2WTYG2G 2 Y ML2G2WG2 G2M2MB2 G2TMG2B2WMMG2WJ2G2B2 IN2G2MWB2B2G2B2B2TWH G2 Y G2TG2WTT G2G2G2G2 B2G2B2WTL2L2G2W B2L2O2L2 B2| I | A |
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| A woman has given me strength and affluence | B |
| Admitted | C |
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| All the rocking wheat of Canada | D |
| ripening now | E |
| has not so much of strength as the body of one woman sweet in ear | F |
| nor so much to give though it feed nations | G |
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| Hunger is the very Satan | H |
| The fear of hunger is Moloch | I |
| Belial the horrible God | J |
| It is a fearful thing to be dominated by the fear of hunger | K |
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| Not bread alone not the belly nor the thirsty throat | L |
| I have never yet been smitten through the belly | M |
| with the lack of bread no | N |
| nor even milk and honey | M |
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| The fear of the want of these things seems to be quite left out of me | M |
| For so much I thank the good generations of man kind | O |
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| II | A |
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| AND the sweet constant | P |
| balanced heat of the suave sensitive body | M |
| the hunger for this has never seized me and terrified me | M |
| Here again man has been good in his legacy to us | Q |
| in these two primary instances | R |
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| III | A |
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| THEN the dumb aching bitter | K |
| helpless need the pining to be initiated | C |
| to have access to the knowledge that the great dead have opened up for us | Q |
| to know to satisfy the great and dominant hunger of the mind | O |
| man's sweetest harvest of the centuries sweet | S |
| printed books bright glancing | T |
| exquisite corn of many a stubborn glebe in the upturned darkness | Q |
| I thank mankind with passionate heart that I just escaped the hunger for these | U |
| that they were given when I needed them because I am the son of man | V |
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| I have eaten and drunk and warmed and clothed my body | M |
| I have been taught the language of understanding | T |
| I have chosen among the bright and marvellous books | W |
| like any prince such stores of the world's supply were open to me | M |
| in the wisdom and goodness of man | V |
| So far so good | X |
| Wise good provision that makes the heart swell with love | Y |
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| IV | Y |
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| BUT then came another hunger very deep and ravening | T |
| the very body's body crying out with a hunger more frightening | T |
| more profound than stomach or throat or even the mind | O |
| redder than death more clamorous | W |
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| The hunger for the woman | H |
| Alas it is so deep a Moloch | I |
| ruthless and strong | T |
| 'tis like the unutterable name of the dread Lord | Z |
| not to be spoken aloud | A2 |
| Yet there it is the hunger which comes upon us | W |
| which we must learn to satisfy with pure | B2 |
| real satisfaction | H |
| or perish there is no alternative | Y |
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| I thought it was woman | H |
| indiscriminate woman | H |
| mere female adjunct of what I was | W |
| Ah that was torment hard enough and a thing to be afraid of | Y |
| a threatening torturing phallic Moloch | I |
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| A woman fed that hunger in me at last | C2 |
| What many women cannot give | Y |
| one woman can so I have known it | D2 |
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| She stood before me like riches that were mine | E2 |
| Even then in the dark I was tortured ravening unfree | B2 |
| Ashamed and shameful and vicious | W |
| A man is so terrified of strong hunger | B2 |
| and this terror is the root of all cruelty | M |
| She loved me and stood before me looking to me | M |
| How could I look when I was mad | F2 |
| I looked sideways furtively being mad with voracious desire | B2 |
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| V | M |
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| THIS comes right at last | C2 |
| When a man is rich | I |
| he loses at last the hunger fear | B2 |
| I lost at last the fierceness that fears it will starve | Y |
| I could put my face at last between her breasts | W |
| and know that they were given for ever that I should never starve never perish | I |
| I had eaten of the bread that satisfies and my body's body was appeased | G2 |
| there was peace and richness fulfilment | G2 |
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| Let them praise desire who will | H2 |
| but only fulfilment will do real fulfilment | G2 |
| nothing short | G2 |
| It is our ratification our heaven | H |
| as a matter of fact | G2 |
| Immortality the heaven | H |
| is only a projection of this strange but actual fulfilment | G2 |
| here in the flesh | I |
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| So another hunger was supplied | G2 |
| and for this I have to thank one woman | H |
| not mankind for mankind would have prevented me | M |
| but one woman and these are my red letter thanksgivings | W |
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| VI | Y |
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| To be or not to be is still the question | H |
| This ache for being is the ultimate hunger | B2 |
| And for myself I can say almost almost oh very nearly | M |
| Yet something remains | W |
| Something shall not always remain | I2 |
| For the main already is fulfilment | G2 |
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| What remains in me is to be known even as I know | N |
| I know her now or perhaps | W |
| I know my own limitation against her | B2 |
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| Plunging as I have done over over the brink | T |
| I have dropped at last headlong into nought | G2 |
| plunging upon sheer hard extinction | H |
| I have come as it were not to know died | G2 |
| as it were ceased from knowing surpassed myself | Y |
| What can I say more except that I know what it is to surpass myself | Y |
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| It is a kind of death which is not death | J2 |
| It is going a little beyond the bounds | W |
| How can one speak where there is a dumbness on one's mouth | K2 |
| I suppose ultimately she is all beyond me | M |
| she is all not me ultimately | M |
| It is that that one comes to | G2 |
| A curious agony and a relief | Y |
| when I touch that which is not me in any sense | W |
| it wounds me to death with my own not being | T |
| definite inviolable limitation and something beyond | G2 |
| quite beyond if you understand what that means | W |
| It is the major part of being | T |
| this having surpassed oneself | Y |
| this having touched the edge of the beyond | G2 |
| and perished yet not perished | G2 |
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| VII | Y |
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| I WANT her though to take the same from me | M |
| She touches me as if I were herself her own | L2 |
| She has not realized yet that fearful thing that | G2 |
| I am the other she thinks we are all of one piece | W |
| It is painfully untrue | G2 |
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| I want her to touch me at last | G2 |
| ah | M2 |
| on the root and quick of my darkness and perish on me | M |
| as I have perished on her | B2 |
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| Then we shall be two and distinct | G2 |
| we shall have each our separate being | T |
| And that will be pure existence real liberty | M |
| Till then we are confused a mixture unresolved | G2 |
| unextricated one from the other | B2 |
| It is in pure unutterable resolvedness | W |
| distinction of being that one is free | M |
| not in mixing merging not in similarity | M |
| When she has put her hand on my secret | G2 |
| darkest sources the darkest outgoings | W |
| when it has struck home to her like a death | J2 |
| this is him she has no part in it | G2 |
| no part whatever it is the terrible other | B2 |
| when she knows the fearful other flesh | I |
| ah darkness unfathomable and fearful | N2 |
| contiguous and concrete | G2 |
| when she is slain against me | M |
| and lies in a heap like one outside the house | W |
| when she passes away as I have passed away being pressed up against the other | B2 |
| then I shall be glad I shall not be confused with her | B2 |
| I shall be cleared distinct | G2 |
| single as if burnished in silver | B2 |
| having no adherence no adhesion anywhere | B2 |
| one clear burnished isolated being unique | T |
| and she also pure isolated complete two of us | W |
| unutterably distinguished and in unutterable conjunction | H |
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| Then we shall be free freer than angels ah perfect | G2 |
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| VIII | Y |
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| AFTER that | G2 |
| there will only remain that all men detach themselves and become unique | T |
| that we are all detached | G2 |
| moving in freedom more than the angels | W |
| conditioned only by our own pure single being | T |
| having no laws but the laws of our own being | T |
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| Every human being will then be like a flower untrammelled | G2 |
| Every movement will be direct | G2 |
| Only to be will be such delight | G2 |
| we cover our faces when we think of it lest our faces betray us to some untimely fiend | G2 |
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| Every man himself and therefore | B2 |
| a surpassing singleness of mankind | G2 |
| The blazing tiger will spring upon the deer | B2 |
| undimmed the hen will nestle over her chickens | W |
| we shall love we shall hate but it will be like music | T |
| sheer utterance issuing straight out of the unknown | L2 |
| the lightning and the rainbow appearing in us unbidden | L2 |
| unchecked | G2 |
| like ambassadors | W |
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| We shall not look before and after | B2 |
| We shall be now | L2 |
| We shall know in full | O2 |
| We the mystic NOW | L2 |
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| ZENNOR | B2 |
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