I Met A Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BCBBBB DEDDDE FBFFFB GHGGGH DIDDD JKJJJK AAA| I met a man when night was nigh | A |
| Who said with shining face and eye | A |
| Like Moses' after Sinai | A |
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| I have seen the Moulder of Monarchies | B |
| Realms peoples plains and hills | C |
| Sitting upon the sunlit seas | B |
| And as He sat soliloquies | B |
| Fell from Him like an antiphonic breeze | B |
| That pricks the waves to thrills | B |
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| Meseemed that of the maimed and dead | D |
| Mown down upon the globe | E |
| Their plenteous blooms of promise shed | D |
| Ere fruiting time His words were said | D |
| Sitting against the western web of red | D |
| Wrapt in His crimson robe | E |
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| And I could catch them now and then | F |
| 'Why let these gambling clans | B |
| Of human Cockers pit liege men | F |
| From mart and city dale and glen | F |
| In death mains but to swell and swell again | F |
| Their swollen All Empery plans | B |
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| 'When a mere nod if my malign | G |
| Compeer but passive keep | H |
| Would mend that old mistake of mine | G |
| I made with Saul and ever consign | G |
| All Lords of War whose sanctuaries enshrine | G |
| Liberticide to sleep | H |
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| 'With violence the lands are spread | D |
| Even as in Israel's day | I |
| And it repenteth me I bred | D |
| Chartered armipotents lust led | D |
| To feuds Yea grieves my heart as then I said | D |
| To see their evil way ' | - |
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| The utterance grew and flapped like flame | J |
| And further speech I feared | K |
| But no Celestial tongued acclaim | J |
| And no huzzas from earthlings came | J |
| And the heavens mutely masked as 'twere in shame | J |
| Till daylight disappeared | K |
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| Thus ended he as night rode high | A |
| The man of shining face and eye | A |
| Like Moses' after Sinai | A |
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Thomas Hardy
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