The Godlike Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEC EFGHI JKBLMNO PQLRSK TUFJVK VHFWF VHLLPX VYZA2FXB2FC2D2E2F2 HBJHFG| NOBLE be man | A |
| Helpful and good | B |
| For that alone | C |
| Distinguisheth him | D |
| From all the beings | E |
| Unto us known | C |
| - | |
| Hail to the beings | E |
| Unknown and glorious | F |
| Whom we forebode | G |
| From his example | H |
| Learn we to know them | I |
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| For unfeeling | J |
| Nature is ever | K |
| On bad and on good | B |
| The sun alike shineth | L |
| And on the wicked | M |
| As on the best | N |
| The moon and stars gleam | O |
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| Tempest and torrent | P |
| Thunder and hail | Q |
| Roar on their path | L |
| Seizing the while | R |
| As they haste onward | S |
| One after another | K |
| - | |
| Even so fortune | T |
| Gropes 'mid the throng | U |
| Innocent boyhood's | F |
| Curly head seizing | J |
| Seizing the hoary | V |
| Head of the sinner | K |
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| After laws mighty | V |
| Brazen eternal | H |
| Must all we mortals | F |
| Finish the circuit | W |
| Of our existence | F |
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| Man and man only | V |
| Can do the impossible | H |
| He 'tis distinguisheth | L |
| Chooseth and judgeth | L |
| He to the moment | P |
| Endurance can lend | X |
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| He and he only | V |
| The good can reward | Y |
| The bad can he punish | Z |
| Can heal and can save | A2 |
| All that wanders and strays | F |
| Can usefully blend | X |
| And we pay homage | B2 |
| To the immortals | F |
| As though they were men | C2 |
| And did in the great | D2 |
| What the best in the small | E2 |
| Does or might do | F2 |
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| Be the man that is noble | H |
| Both helpful and good | B |
| Unweariedly forming | J |
| The right and the useful | H |
| A type of those beings | F |
| Our mind hath foreshadow'd | G |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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