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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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
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