Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MNEN OPEP QRPR SPTP UBTB VWPW PXPX PPYP OBZA2 B2C2PC2| One day I sat me down to write | A |
| And thought with might and main | B |
| But neither subject fit nor thoughts | C |
| Came to my barren brain | B |
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| And then I laid my pen aside | D |
| With sad despairing mind | E |
| And fill'd with self contemptuous scorn | F |
| I thought of human kind | E |
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| I saw a trifling feeble race | G |
| With narrow thoughts and aims | H |
| Each noble aspiration crush'd | I |
| By rigid duty's claims | H |
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| Selfish and hard they toil'd along | J |
| And in the bitter strife | K |
| Neglected all that sweeten'd toil | L |
| Or that ennobl'd life | K |
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| Another day I sat me down | M |
| A happy subject came | N |
| And pleasant thoughts light up my mind | E |
| With bright and cheerful flame | N |
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| And as I thought with heart aglow | O |
| Self satisfied I grew | P |
| And guag'd with ampler girt my mind | E |
| And minds of others too | P |
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| With satisfaction now I view'd | Q |
| Creation's mighty plan | R |
| And had a clearer vision too | P |
| And juster thoughts of man | R |
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| A toiling mortal yet I saw | S |
| But saw no more a clod | P |
| For far as mind o'er matter is | T |
| He stood plac'd by his God | P |
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| For now I saw to man was given | U |
| The right to rule and reign | B |
| And bend all other pow'rs to his | T |
| In nature's wild domain | B |
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| The light of endless life gleam'd forth | V |
| From his pain'd body's eye | W |
| And tho' in shackles now it liv'd | P |
| That light should never die | W |
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| The window now thro' which it look'd | P |
| Might clos'd in darkness be | X |
| But in a world above beyond | P |
| Eternal light 'twould see | X |
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| And this is what I learn'd that day | P |
| When I sat down to write | P |
| That man above all earthly things | Y |
| Sits plac'd by lawful right | P |
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| And tho' he lives this life below | O |
| 'Mid accidents and pain | B |
| There is a better life for him | Z |
| When he shall live again | A2 |
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| And tho' his road upon this earth | B2 |
| Be dusty bleak and bare | C2 |
| Another and a joyful road | P |
| Is his to travel there | C2 |
Thomas Frederick Young
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