The Womb Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABCBC DADAECEC FAFAGCGC| Up from the evil day | A |
| Of wattle and of woad | A |
| Along man's weary way | A |
| Dark Pain has been the goad | A |
| Back from the age of stone | B |
| Within his brutish brain | C |
| What pleasure he has known | B |
| Is ease from Pain | C |
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| Behold in Pain the force | D |
| That haled Man from the Pit | A |
| And set him such a course | D |
| No mind can measure it | A |
| To angel from the ape | E |
| No human pang was vain | C |
| In that divine escape | E |
| To joy through Pain | C |
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| See Pain with stoic eyes | F |
| And patient fortitude | A |
| A blessing in disguise | F |
| An instrument of good | A |
| Aye though with hearts forlorn | G |
| We to despair be fain | C |
| Believe that Joy is born | G |
| From Womb of Pain | C |
Robert Service
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