Man What Is He? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDCD EFEFGHGH FIFJDFDF CKCKFDFD FHFHFFFF FLFLMNCN GBGBOFOF PEQEGRGR QQQQFSFS ODODFTFT| se and yet | A |
| He who best can answer knoweth | B |
| Answer true were hard to get | A |
| Not the Sphinx in Egypt olden | C |
| Did a deeper question ask | D |
| Love to strengthen and embolden | C |
| Be to answer mine the task | D |
| - | |
| But a feeble mortal merely | E |
| An immortal now believed | F |
| One too complex to be clearly | E |
| Even by himself conceived | F |
| One both complex and immortal | G |
| Say I inward going yea | H |
| Death is but to Life the portal | G |
| As the poets always say | H |
| - | |
| From the Inner Sun a sparklet | F |
| He Man glows a star in turn | I |
| From whose life evolving circlet | F |
| Other living powers are born | J |
| These again their source enringing | D |
| To the seeric ken's unfurl'd | F |
| On its way unending winging | D |
| In the great a lesser world | F |
| - | |
| Each deep thought and each great action | C |
| Shrined within our inner skies | K |
| To our rapture or distraction | C |
| Greets us when the Earth man dies | K |
| There a meteor or a starlet | F |
| Burns it while the years take wing | D |
| To the check the guilt born scarlet | F |
| Or the glow of bliss to bring | D |
| - | |
| Empires come and go the granite | F |
| Boulder moulders into clay | H |
| From each pathway shall each planet | F |
| And its splendour pass away | H |
| But whilst these away have vanished | F |
| Not one thought and not one deed | F |
| Tho' awhile to Lethe banished | F |
| But shall live our worth to meed | F |
| - | |
| Not our merit or demerit | F |
| But to crown or punish ne'er | L |
| In the regions of the spirit | F |
| Other ends life's issues bear | L |
| Deeper than the ocean even | M |
| Higher than Orion still | N |
| Still to them the power is given | C |
| On to go for good or ill | N |
| - | |
| Boundless still for good and evil | G |
| Not for good or evil loth | B |
| Loth were truth to call him devil | G |
| Man's a god and devil both | B |
| But the devil weakens stronger | O |
| In his person grows the god | F |
| Till a slave to sin no longer | O |
| Bright's the pathway by him trod | F |
| - | |
| Up thro' ill the good still rises | P |
| And the souls thus risen see | E |
| What still hid from dimmer eyes is | Q |
| Without ill no good can be | E |
| Nay thro' strife with the infernal | G |
| And the sinful only can | R |
| In the courts of the Eternal | G |
| Be a high seat won by Man | R |
| - | |
| From the shattered limbs of C lus | Q |
| Given to the ocean waves | Q |
| Venus rose as legends tell us | Q |
| She whose grace the heart enslaves | Q |
| So thro' strife with evil shatter'd | F |
| May we seem a moment when | S |
| Lo from out the relics scattered | F |
| Springs what's hailed a God to Men | S |
| - | |
| What is Man You have my answer | O |
| In a may be less prized song | D |
| Than a tip toed tight rope dance were | O |
| By yon wonder stricken throng | D |
| Yet however faulty seems it | F |
| From a soul the truth would know | T |
| And for Truth's advantage streams it | F |
| Would all lauded songs did so | T |
Joseph Skipsey
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
About Man What Is He?
Man What Is He? is a poem by Joseph Skipsey. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.
Write your comment about Man What Is He? poem by Joseph Skipsey
Best Poems of Joseph Skipsey