Man's Place In Nature, Dedicated To Darwin And Huxley Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD ECFCGHGD IIIIJDJD CCCCKDKD| They told him gently he was made | A |
| Of nicely tempered mud | B |
| That man no lengthened part had played | A |
| Anterior to the Flood | B |
| 'Twas all in vain he heeded not | C |
| Referring plant and worm | D |
| Fish reptile ape and Hottentot | C |
| To one primordial germ | D |
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| They asked him whether he could bear | E |
| To think his kind allied | C |
| To all those brutal forms which were | F |
| In structure Pithecoid | C |
| Whether he thought the apes and us | G |
| Homologous in form | H |
| He said Homo and Pithecus | G |
| Came from one common germ | D |
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| They called him atheistical | I |
| Sceptic and infidel | I |
| They swore his doctrines without fail | I |
| Would plunge him into hell | I |
| But he with proofs in no way lame | J |
| Made this deduction firm | D |
| That all organic beings came | J |
| From one primordial germ | D |
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| That as for the Noachian flood | C |
| 'Twas long ago disproved | C |
| That as for man being made of mud | C |
| All by whom truth is loved | C |
| Accept as fact what malgre strife | K |
| Research tends to confirm | D |
| That man and everything with life | K |
| Came from one common germ | D |
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