Evolution Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABC DCDEF GFHIH IJKJK LMLNF BFBOP OPDQD QRSRS TUTUV WVWXY XYDBD BSASA ZA2B2C2D2 UD2UE2F2 E2F2UG2U G2H2SH2S SI2SI2V SVSUF UFJ2K2J2 K2L2E2L2E2 SSSSS D2SD2SH SHM2N2M2 N2O2K2O2K2 V VDP2 SP2SDA DAQ2R2Q2 R2HSHS S2T2S2U2M SNSSJ2 SV2DW2U W2T2FX2F MLNLS O2SO2Y2B Y2BCZ2C Z2XA2XA2 D2HD2HZ G2ZG2A3B3 A3B3JSJ SSDSU SC3SE2THOU stand'st complete in every part | A |
An individual of thy kind | B |
But whence thou cam'st and what thou art | A |
Didst ever ask thee of thy mind | B |
Thou claim'st a portion of God's earth | C |
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Thou say'st to all men This is I | D |
Thou hast a date to mark thy birth | C |
And other date when thou shalt die | D |
Thy years are in the planets' years | E |
A space in all that mighty span | F |
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A little space of smiles and tears | G |
Is writ in shining letters Man | F |
Thou hear'st the mighty ocean roll | H |
Thou seest death on every hand | I |
There loom strange phantoms in thy soul | H |
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And boundless heavens arch the land | I |
Thy feet are on the sand and clay | J |
Which once had other growths than these | K |
And in the great world's yesterday | J |
Heard murmurs of the tropic seas | K |
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Life out of death death out of life | L |
In endless cycles rolling on | M |
And fire gleams flashing from the strife | L |
Of what will come and what has gone | N |
A perfect whole a perfect plan | F |
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Ay doubtless in the perfect mind | B |
An onward march since time began | F |
With yet no laggart left behind | B |
All blended in a wondrous chain | O |
Each link the fittest for its place | P |
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The stronger made to bear the strain | O |
The weaker formed to give it grace | P |
But what art thou and what am I | D |
What place is ours in all this scheme | Q |
What is it to be born and die | D |
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Are we but phases in a dream | Q |
That earth or some prime mother dreams | R |
Folded away in crimson skies | S |
Or are we dazzled with the beams | R |
Of light too strong for new born eyes | S |
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Certes we are not very much | T |
We cannot cause ourselves to be | U |
Not even the limbs by which we touch | T |
Are really owned by thee and me | U |
But they were fashioned years ago | V |
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Ay centuries since earth's natal morn | W |
The wondering ages saw them grow | V |
Till our time came and we were born | W |
And we are present future past | X |
Shall live again have lived before | Y |
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Like billows on the beaches cast | X |
Of tides that flow for evermore | Y |
And yet thou sayest This is I | D |
I am marked off from all my kind | B |
I look not to the by and by | D |
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I care not for what lies behind | B |
That may be so but to mine eyes | S |
A being of wondrous make thou art | A |
The point at which infinities | S |
Converge touch and for ever part | A |
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Thou canst not unmake what has been | Z |
Nor hold back that which is to come | A2 |
We dwell upon the waste between | B2 |
In the small now which is our home | C2 |
Though this be so thou answerest still | D2 |
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I feel and know myself to be | U |
Thy creed would make the perfect will | D2 |
In God's sight like a stone or tree | U |
Ah no for stone and tree are one | E2 |
And perfect will bears different fruit | F2 |
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The will is grander than the sun | E2 |
The body brother to the brute | F2 |
But in the ages thou shalt be | U |
A link from unknown to unknown | G2 |
A bridge across a darkling sea | U |
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A light on the world's pathway thrown | G2 |
Ay such is man a moan in sleep | H2 |
A passing dream he thinks and is | S |
And then falls back into the deep | H2 |
Where other deeps call unto this | S |
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But in that thinking in that pause | S |
That dream which did so little yield | I2 |
There met a universe of laws | S |
And branched out into wider field | I2 |
We live not for ourselves ah no | V |
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We do not live man lives in us | S |
The race dwells in us even so | V |
The race will live though we pass thus | S |
The forces that have fashioned thee | U |
Have rolled through space since time began | F |
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Have ranged the heavens the earth the sea | U |
And in God's time have made thee man | F |
And so to further goal they move | J2 |
When thou hast passed from mortal sight | K2 |
To fashion beings that will prove | J2 |
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More wondrous still more full of light | K2 |
We are the foam crest on the wave | L2 |
Lit for a moment by the sun | E2 |
A moment thus we toss and rave | L2 |
Then fall back ere our day is done | E2 |
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Thou then art twain the force that builds | S |
The broad foundations of the race | S |
And separate light from God that gilds | S |
The soul with individual grace | S |
God looks at both the one displays | S |
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The laws that work His purpose still | D2 |
The other thine own spirit sways | S |
And here God asks the perfect will | D2 |
I would not have thee think the less | S |
Of this small part which is man's soul | H |
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Nor miss the exceeding blessedness | S |
Of knowing thyself a separate whole | H |
What proof thou sayest if this be true | M2 |
That thou and I survive the shock | N2 |
Which summons all we are and do | M2 |
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To credit of the primal stock | N2 |
If I and thou a moment are | O2 |
Conscious of self of touch of sight | K2 |
Then vanish like a falling star | O2 |
And sink in everlasting night | K2 |
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What proof that in the overthrow | V |
The thing that says knows This is I ' | - |
Will not pass with the rest and go | V |
Dissolved into the vast supply | D |
Though formed of elemental dust | P2 |
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And moulded through such countless years | S |
We perish not with these but must | P2 |
Survive the rolling of the spheres | S |
We must I say for what most high | D |
In man Is't not the subtle part | A |
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The power which tells me This is I | D |
I am not everything thou art | A |
Would God have laboured then and wrought | Q2 |
With fire and water life and death | R2 |
And through the weary cycles brought | Q2 |
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A creature with the vital breath | R2 |
And breathed such power within his soul | H |
And crowned him with such wondrous grace | S |
And said Go forth from pole to pole | H |
And meet thy brother face to face | S |
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If this strange power were meant to sink | S2 |
Back into chaos or be lost | T2 |
Or cast off as a broken link | S2 |
Or die like wave along the coast | U2 |
Not that God's way On ever on | M |
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To nobler purer higher things | S |
Form out the ages that are gone | N |
Each newer grander era springs | S |
So nought is lost but all must pass | S |
And life through varied stages move | J2 |
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From the pale fungus in the grass | S |
To deepest depths of light and love | V2 |
And we must pass we shall not die | D |
Changed and transformed but still the same | W2 |
To grander heights of mystery | U |
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To fairer realms than whence we came | W2 |
God will not let His work be lost | T2 |
Too wondrous is the mind of man | F |
Too many ages it has cost | X2 |
The huge fulfilment of His plan | F |
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But on we pass for ever on | M |
Through death to other deaths and life | L |
To brighter lights when these are gone | N |
To broader thought more glorious strife | L |
To vistas opening out of these | S |
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To wonders shining from afar | O2 |
Above the surging of the seas | S |
Above the course of moon and star | O2 |
To higher powers of will and deed | Y2 |
All bounds and limits left behind | B |
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To truths undreamt in any creed | Y2 |
To deeper love more God like mind | B |
For this the sky and sea and earth | C |
God moulded with His ice and fire | Z2 |
For this the ages gave us birth | C |
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And filled our hearts with mad desire | Z2 |
Great God we move into the vast | X |
All questions vain the shadows come | A2 |
We hear no answer from the past | X |
The years before us all are dumb | A2 |
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We trust Thy purpose and Thy will | D2 |
We see afar the shining goal | H |
Forgive us if there linger still | D2 |
Some human fear within our soul | H |
Forgive us if when crumbling in | Z |
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The world that we have loved and known | G2 |
With forms so fair to us we sin | Z |
By eyes averted from Thy throne | G2 |
Forgive us if with thoughts too wild | A3 |
And eyes too dim to pierce the gloom | B3 |
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We shudder like a frightened child | A3 |
That enters at a darkened room | B3 |
Forgive us if when dies away | J |
All human sound upon our ears | S |
We hear not in the swift decay | J |
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Thy loving voice to calm our fears | S |
But lo the dawn of fuller days | S |
Horizon glories fringe the sky | D |
Our feet would climb the shining ways | S |
To meet man's widest destiny | U |
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Come then all sorrow's recompense | S |
The kindling sky is flaked with gold | C3 |
Above the shattered screen of sense | S |
A voice like thun | E2 |
Frederick George Scott
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