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 R3

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Hath not man at his noblestB
An air of something more than manC
A hint of grace immortalD
Born of his greatly daring to assist the godsE
In conquering these shaggy wastesF
These desert worldsG
And planting life and order in these starsH
So Woman at her bestI
Her eyes are bright with visions and with dreamsJ
That triumph over timeK
Her plumed thought wing for wing is mate withL
hisM
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IIA
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The world rolls on from dream to dreamN
And 'neath the vast impersonal revenges of itsO
goingP
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Crushed fools that cried defeatQ
Lie dead amid the dust they prophesiedR
Ye doubters of man's larger destinyS
Ye that despairT
Look backward down the vistaed yearsU
And all is battle and all victoryS
Man fought to be a manC
Through painful centuries the slow beast foughtV
Blinded and baffled fought to gain his soulW
Wild hairy shag and feared of shadowsX
Yet the cloudsY
Made him strange signals that he puzzled o'erZ
Beast child and apeA2
And yet the winds harped to him and the seaS
Rolled in upon his consciousnessB2
Its tides of wonder and romanceC2
Uncouth and caked with mireD2
And yet the stars said something to him and theE2
sunF2
Declared itself a godG2
The lagging cycles turned at lastH2
The pictures into thoughtV
Thought flowered in soulW
But oh the myriad weary yearsU
Ere Caliban was Shakespeare's selfI2
And Darwin's ape had Darwin's brainJ2
The battling battling and the steep ascentK2
The fight to hold the little gainedL2
The loss the doubt the shaken heartM2
The stubborn groping slow recoveryS
But looking backward toward the dim beginningsN2
You that despairT
Hath he not climbed and conqueredO2
Look backward and all's VictoryS
What coward looks forward and foresees defeatQ
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IIIA
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Who climbed beside him and who foughtV
And suffered and was gladP2
Is she a lesser thing than heS
Who stained the slopes with bloody feet or stoodQ2
Beside him on some hard won eminence of hopeR2
Exulting as the bold dawn sweptS2
A harper hand along the ringing hillsT2
Flesh of his flesh and of his soul the soulW
Hath she not fought hath she not climbedU2
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And how is she a lesser thingP
Nay if she ever wasV2
'Twas we that made her so who called her queenW2
But kept her slaveX2
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IVX2
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Had she not courage for the fightY2
Hath she not courage for the years to comeZ2
Hath she not courage who descends aloneA3
How pitifully alone except for LoveX2
Where man's thought even falters that wouldQ2
followB3
Into the shadowy abyssC3
Through vast and murmurous caverns dark withL
crowding dreadD3
And terrible with hovering wingsN2
To battle there with Death to battleD
There with Death and wrest from himE3
O Conqueror and MotherZ
LifeX2
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VX2
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Hath she too long dwelt dream bound in the worldF3
of loveX2
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Unconscious of the sterner throesX
The more austere impersonal wide faithG3
The urge that drives Christs to the crossH3
Not for the love of one belovedI3
But for the love of allJ3
If so she wakesK3
Wakes and demands a share in all man's bolderZ
destiniesL3
The high audacious ventures of the soulW
That thinks to scale the bastioned slopesM3
And strike stark Chaos from his throneA3
We still stand in the dawn of timeK
Not meanly let us stand nor shaken with lowB3
doubtsN3
For there beyond the verge and margin of gray cloudO3
The future thrills with promiseB2
And the skies are tremulous with golden lightY2
She too would share those victoriesL3
Comrade and more than comradeP2
New times new needs confront us nowP3
We must evolve new powersQ3
To battle withL
We must go forward now togetherZ
Or perchance we failR3

Don Marquis



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