The Incarnate One Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCC DCDCCEF CGCHGII JKJKKLL MNMNNCC| The windless northern surge the sea gull's scream | A |
| And Calvin's kirk crowning the barren brae | B |
| I think of Giotto the Tuscan shepherd's dream | A |
| Christ man and creature in their inner day | B |
| How could our race betray | B |
| The Image and the Incarnate One unmake | C |
| Who chose this form and fashion for our sake | C |
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| The Word made flesh here is made word again | D |
| A word made word in flourish and arrogant crook | C |
| See there King Calvin with his iron pen | D |
| And God three angry letters in a book | C |
| And there the logical hook | C |
| On which the Mystery is impaled and bent | E |
| Into an ideological argument | F |
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| There's better gospel in man's natural tongue | C |
| And truer sight was theirs outside the Law | G |
| Who saw the far side of the Cross among | C |
| The archaic peoples in their ancient awe | H |
| In ignorant wonder saw | G |
| The wooden cross tree on the bare hillside | I |
| Not knowing that there a God suffered and died | I |
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| The fleshless word growing will bring us down | J |
| Pagan and Christian man alike will fall | K |
| The auguries say the white and black and brown | J |
| The merry and the sad theorist lover all | K |
| Invisibly will fall | K |
| Abstract calamity save for those who can | L |
| Build their cold empire on the abstract man | L |
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| A soft breeze stirs and all my thoughts are blown | M |
| Far out to sea and lost Yet I know well | N |
| The bloodless word will battle for its own | M |
| Invisibly in brain and nerve and cell | N |
| The generations tell | N |
| Their personal tale the One has far to go | C |
| Past the mirages and the murdering snow | C |
Edwin Muir
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