What Is Man? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH FIFJFKFK FHFHCLCL FMFMNOCO GAGAPQPQ RESEGTGT SSSSFUFU PVPVAWAW| WHAT is man The question floweth | A |
| From the lips with ease and yet | B |
| He who best could answer knoweth | A |
| Answer true were hard to get | B |
| 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 |
| This a meteor that a starlet | F |
| Burn they while years take wing | K |
| To the cheek the guilt born scarlet | F |
| Or the glow of bliss to bring | K |
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| Yea let Empires pass the granite | F |
| Boulder moulder into clay | H |
| From their pathway star and planet | F |
| And their splendour pass away | H |
| Yet when these have sped each action | C |
| And each thought we prize or rue | L |
| To our rapture or distraction | C |
| Shall the soul immortal view | L |
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| Not our merit or dismerit | F |
| But to crown or punish ne'er | M |
| In the regions of the spirit | F |
| Other ends life's issues bear | M |
| Deeper than the ocean even | N |
| Higher than Orion still | O |
| Still to them the power is given | C |
| On to go for good or ill | O |
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| Boundless yet for good and evil | G |
| Not for good or evil loth | A |
| Loth were truth to call him devil | G |
| Man's a god and devil both | A |
| But the devil weakens stronger | P |
| In his soul the god head grows | Q |
| Till a slave to sin no longer | P |
| On Life's chequered way he goes | Q |
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| Up thro' ill the good still rises | R |
| And the souls thus risen see | E |
| What oft hid from dimmer eyes is | S |
| Without ill no good can be | E |
| Nay thro' strife with the infernal | G |
| And the sinful only can | T |
| In the courts of the Eternal | G |
| Be a high seat won by Man | T |
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| From the shattered limbs of C lus | S |
| Given to the ocean waves | S |
| Venus rose as legends tell us | S |
| She whose grace the heart enslaves | S |
| So thro' life with evil shatter'd | F |
| May we seem a moment when | U |
| Lo from out the relics scattered | F |
| Springs what's hailed a God to Men | U |
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| What is Man You have my answer | P |
| In a may be less prized song | V |
| Than a tip toed tight rope dance were | P |
| By yon wonder stricken throng | V |
| Yet however weak it seemeth | A |
| 'Tis from one the truth would know | W |
| And for Truth's advantage streameth | A |
| Would all lauded songs did so | W |
Joseph Skipsey
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