Men Are Heaven's Piers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCBBDDEEFFGGHHBB IIJJKKLMBBBBBB| MEN are Heaven's piers they evermore | A |
| Unwearying bear the skyey floor | A |
| Man's theatre they bear with ease | B |
| Unfrowning cariatides | B |
| I for my wife the sun uphold | C |
| Or dozing strike the seasons cold | C |
| She on her side in fairy wise | B |
| Deals in diviner mysteries | B |
| By spells to make the fuel burn | D |
| And keep the parlour warm to turn | D |
| Water to wine and stones to bread | E |
| By her unconquered hero head | E |
| A naked Adam naked Eve | F |
| Alone the primal bower we weave | F |
| Sequestered in the seas of life | G |
| A Crusoe couple man and wife | G |
| With all our good with all our will | H |
| Our unfrequented isle we fill | H |
| And victor in day's petty wars | B |
| Each for the other lights the stars | B |
| Come then my Eve and to and fro | I |
| Let us about our garden go | I |
| And grateful hearted hand in hand | J |
| Revisit all our tillage land | J |
| And marvel at our strange estate | K |
| For hooded ruin at the gate | K |
| Sits watchful and the angels fear | L |
| To see us tread so boldly here | M |
| Meanwhile my Eve with flower and grass | B |
| Our perishable days we pass | B |
| Far more the thorn observe and see | B |
| How our enormous sins go free | B |
| Nor less admire beside the rose | B |
| How far a little virtue goes | B |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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