Heredity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB BCBCBC

I am the family faceA
Flesh perishes I live onB
Projecting trait and traceA
Through time to times anonB
And leaping from place to placeA
Over oblivionB
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The years heired feature that canB
In curve and voice and eyeC
Despise the human spanB
Of durance that is IC
The eternal thing in manB
That heeds no call to dieC

Thomas Hardy



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andrew jarvis: A beautifully humanist poem, which shows Hardy's view that although our conscious self may perish, we live on through procreation. Such brevity, but he makes his point through poetry, so it is all the more striking.
 

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