The Creation Of Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE BGHG IJDJ DKLK LIMI NOBO DKPQ NRST CBDB DUBU HVDV IWHW| When the world was first created | A |
| By th' all wise Eternal One | B |
| Asked he none for help or counsel | C |
| Simply spake and it was done | B |
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| Made it for his own good pleasure | D |
| Shaped it on his own design | E |
| Spent a long day's work upon it | F |
| Formed it fair and very fine | E |
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| Soon he thought on man's creation | B |
| Then perplexities arose | G |
| So the Lord His winged Senate | H |
| Called the question to propose | G |
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| Hear my great ones why I called ye | I |
| Hear and help me ye who can | J |
| Hear and tell me how I further | D |
| Shall proceed in making man | J |
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| Ponder well before ye answer | D |
| And consider children dear | K |
| In our image I would make him | L |
| Free from stain from blemish clear | K |
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| Of my holy fire I'd give him | L |
| Crowned monarch shall he be | I |
| Ruling with a sway unquestioned | M |
| Over earth and air and sea | I |
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| Birds across the blue sky winging | N |
| Swift shall fly before his face | O |
| Silver fishes in the ocean | B |
| Savage lion in the chase | O |
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| How This toy of froth and vapor | D |
| Thought the Senate filled with fear | K |
| If so wide his kingdom stretches | P |
| Shortly he will break in here | Q |
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| So the Lord they answered saying | N |
| Mind and strength Thy creature give | R |
| Form him in our very image | S |
| Lord but wingless let him live | T |
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| Lest he shame the soaring eagle | C |
| Let no wings to man be giv'n | B |
| Bid him o'er the earth be ruler | D |
| Lord but keep him out of heav'n | B |
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| Wisely said the Lord made answer | D |
| Lo your counsel fair I take | U |
| Yet my Senate one exception | B |
| One alone I will to make | U |
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| One exception for the poet | H |
| For the singer shall have wings | V |
| He the gates of Heav'n shall enter | D |
| Highest of created things | V |
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| One I single from among ye | I |
| One to watch the ages long | W |
| Promptly to admit the poet | H |
| When he hears his holy song | W |
Morris Rosenfeld
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