Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCAC DEFGHIH JBKBJLJ MNMOPQP| Weighing the steadfastness and state | A |
| Of some mean things which here below reside | B |
| Where birds like watchful clocks the noiseless date | A |
| And intercourse of times divide | B |
| Where bees at night get home and hive and flowers | C |
| Early as well as late | A |
| Rise with the sun and set in the same bowers | C |
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| I would said I my God would give | D |
| The staidness of these things to man for these | E |
| To His divine appointments ever cleave | F |
| And no new business breaks their peace | G |
| The birds nor sow nor reap yet sup and dine | H |
| The flowers without clothes live | I |
| Yet Solomon was never dressed so fine | H |
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| Man hath still either toys or care | J |
| He hath no root nor to one place is tied | B |
| But ever restless and irregular | K |
| About this earth doth run and ride | B |
| He knows he hath a home but scarce knows where | J |
| He says it is so far | L |
| That he hath quite forgot how to go there | J |
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| He knocks at all doors strays and roams | M |
| Nay hath not so much wit as some stones have | N |
| Which in the darkest nights point to their homes | M |
| By some hid sense their Maker gave | O |
| Man is the shuttle to whose winding quest | P |
| And passage through these looms | Q |
| God ordered motion but ordained no rest | P |
Henry Vaughan
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