A Plaint To Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA BCB CDC DEE EFE FGF GHG HFH FEF EIE II| When you slowly emerged from the den of Time | A |
| And gained percipience as you grew | B |
| And fleshed you fair out of shapeless slime | A |
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| Wherefore O Man did there come to you | B |
| The unhappy need of creating me | C |
| A form like your own for praying to | B |
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| My virtue power utility | C |
| Within my maker must all abide | D |
| Since none in myself can ever be | C |
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| One thin as a shape on a lantern slide | D |
| Shown forth in the dark upon some dim sheet | E |
| And by none but its showman vivified | E |
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| Such a forced device you may say is meet | E |
| For easing a loaded heart at whiles | F |
| Man needs to conceive of a mercy seat | E |
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| Somewhere above the gloomy aisles | F |
| Of this wailful world or he could not bear | G |
| The irk no local hope beguiles | F |
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| But since I was framed in your first despair | G |
| The doing without me has had no play | H |
| In the minds of men when shadows scare | G |
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| And now that I dwindle day by day | H |
| Beneath the deicide eyes of seers | F |
| In a light that will not let me stay | H |
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| And to morrow the whole of me disappears | F |
| The truth should be told and the fact be faced | E |
| That had best been faced in earlier years | F |
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| The fact of life with dependence placed | E |
| On the human heart's resource alone | I |
| In brotherhood bonded close and graced | E |
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| With loving kindness fully blown | I |
| And visioned help unsought unknown | I |
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Thomas Hardy
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