The Comrade Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHIJKLM A NOP QRSTUSCVWXYZA2SB2C2D 2E2F2G2H2VWUI2J2K2L2 M2SN2TO2SQ A VP2SQ2R2S2T2WU2 PV2W2X2 X2 Y2Z2A3X2Q2B3C3LD3N2D E3ZX2 X2 F3X2 XG3H3I3J3K3ZL3WM3A3K B3N3O3B2Y2L3P2P3Q3LZ R3I | A |
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Hath not man at his noblest | B |
An air of something more than man | C |
A hint of grace immortal | D |
Born of his greatly daring to assist the gods | E |
In conquering these shaggy wastes | F |
These desert worlds | G |
And planting life and order in these stars | H |
So Woman at her best | I |
Her eyes are bright with visions and with dreams | J |
That triumph over time | K |
Her plumed thought wing for wing is mate with | L |
his | M |
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II | A |
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The world rolls on from dream to dream | N |
And 'neath the vast impersonal revenges of its | O |
going | P |
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Crushed fools that cried defeat | Q |
Lie dead amid the dust they prophesied | R |
Ye doubters of man's larger destiny | S |
Ye that despair | T |
Look backward down the vistaed years | U |
And all is battle and all victory | S |
Man fought to be a man | C |
Through painful centuries the slow beast fought | V |
Blinded and baffled fought to gain his soul | W |
Wild hairy shag and feared of shadows | X |
Yet the clouds | Y |
Made him strange signals that he puzzled o'er | Z |
Beast child and ape | A2 |
And yet the winds harped to him and the sea | S |
Rolled in upon his consciousness | B2 |
Its tides of wonder and romance | C2 |
Uncouth and caked with mire | D2 |
And yet the stars said something to him and the | E2 |
sun | F2 |
Declared itself a god | G2 |
The lagging cycles turned at last | H2 |
The pictures into thought | V |
Thought flowered in soul | W |
But oh the myriad weary years | U |
Ere Caliban was Shakespeare's self | I2 |
And Darwin's ape had Darwin's brain | J2 |
The battling battling and the steep ascent | K2 |
The fight to hold the little gained | L2 |
The loss the doubt the shaken heart | M2 |
The stubborn groping slow recovery | S |
But looking backward toward the dim beginnings | N2 |
You that despair | T |
Hath he not climbed and conquered | O2 |
Look backward and all's Victory | S |
What coward looks forward and foresees defeat | Q |
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III | A |
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Who climbed beside him and who fought | V |
And suffered and was glad | P2 |
Is she a lesser thing than he | S |
Who stained the slopes with bloody feet or stood | Q2 |
Beside him on some hard won eminence of hope | R2 |
Exulting as the bold dawn swept | S2 |
A harper hand along the ringing hills | T2 |
Flesh of his flesh and of his soul the soul | W |
Hath she not fought hath she not climbed | U2 |
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And how is she a lesser thing | P |
Nay if she ever was | V2 |
'Twas we that made her so who called her queen | W2 |
But kept her slave | X2 |
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IV | X2 |
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Had she not courage for the fight | Y2 |
Hath she not courage for the years to come | Z2 |
Hath she not courage who descends alone | A3 |
How pitifully alone except for Love | X2 |
Where man's thought even falters that would | Q2 |
follow | B3 |
Into the shadowy abyss | C3 |
Through vast and murmurous caverns dark with | L |
crowding dread | D3 |
And terrible with hovering wings | N2 |
To battle there with Death to battle | D |
There with Death and wrest from him | E3 |
O Conqueror and Mother | Z |
Life | X2 |
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V | X2 |
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Hath she too long dwelt dream bound in the world | F3 |
of love | X2 |
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Unconscious of the sterner throes | X |
The more austere impersonal wide faith | G3 |
The urge that drives Christs to the cross | H3 |
Not for the love of one beloved | I3 |
But for the love of all | J3 |
If so she wakes | K3 |
Wakes and demands a share in all man's bolder | Z |
destinies | L3 |
The high audacious ventures of the soul | W |
That thinks to scale the bastioned slopes | M3 |
And strike stark Chaos from his throne | A3 |
We still stand in the dawn of time | K |
Not meanly let us stand nor shaken with low | B3 |
doubts | N3 |
For there beyond the verge and margin of gray cloud | O3 |
The future thrills with promise | B2 |
And the skies are tremulous with golden light | Y2 |
She too would share those victories | L3 |
Comrade and more than comrade | P2 |
New times new needs confront us now | P3 |
We must evolve new powers | Q3 |
To battle with | L |
We must go forward now together | Z |
Or perchance we fail | R3 |
Don Marquis
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