Man, The Destroyer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDE FGFGHIHI JKJKLMLM NONOPQPQ RSRSTUTV UWVWXFXF| O spirit of Life by whatsoe'er a name | A |
| Known among men even as our fathers bent | B |
| Before thee and as little children came | A |
| For counsel in Life's dread predicament | C |
| Even we with all our lore | D |
| That only beckons saddens and betrays | E |
| Have no such key to the mysterious door | D |
| As he that kneels and prays | E |
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| The stern ascension of our climbing thought | F |
| The martyred pilgrims of the soaring soul | G |
| Bring us no nearer to the thing we sought | F |
| But only tempt us further from the goal | G |
| Yea the eternal plan | H |
| Darkens with knowledge and our weary skill | I |
| But makes us more of beast and less of man | H |
| Fevered to hate and kill | I |
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| Loves flees with frightened eyes the world it knew | J |
| Fades and dissolves and vanishes away | K |
| And the sole art the sons of men pursue | J |
| Is to out speed the slayer and to slay | K |
| And lovely secrets won | L |
| From radiant nature and her magic laws | M |
| Serve but to stretch black deserts in the sun | L |
| And glut destruction's jaws | M |
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| Life is it sweet no more the same blue sky | N |
| Arches the woods the green earth filled with trees | O |
| Glories with song happy it knows not why | N |
| Painted with flowers and warm with murmurous bees | O |
| This earth this golden home | P |
| Where men like unto gods were wont to dwell | Q |
| Was all this builded with the stars for dome | P |
| For man to make it hell | Q |
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| Was it for this life blossomed with fair arts | R |
| That for some paltry leagues of stolen land | S |
| Or some poor squabble of contending marts | R |
| Murder shall smudge out with its reeking hand | S |
| Man's faith and fanes alike | T |
| And man be man no more but a brute brain | U |
| A primal horror mailed and fanged to strike | T |
| And bring the Dark again | V |
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| Fool of the Ages fitfully wise in vain | U |
| Surely the heavens shall laugh the long long climb | W |
| Up to the stars to dash him down again | V |
| And all the travail of slow moving Time | W |
| And birth of radiant wings | X |
| A dream of pain an agony for naught | F |
| Highest and lowest of created things | X |
| Man the proud fool of thought | F |
Richard Le Gallienne
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