Genesis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHJKLK MCNCMOPO MQBQRSBS TTUTVWXW YPZPA2B2TB2 TTC2T

I was but a half grown boyA
You were a girl child slightB
Ah how weary you wereC
You had led in the bullock fightB
We slew the bullock at lengthD
With knives and maces of stoneE
And so your feet were tornF
Your lean arms bruised to the boneE
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Perhaps 'twas the slain beast's bloodG
We drank or a root we ateH
Or our reveling evening bathI
In the fall by the garden gateH
But you turned to a witching thingJ
Side glancing and frightened meK
You purred like a panther's cubL
You sighed like a shell from the seaK
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We knelt I caressed your hairM
By the light of the leaping fireC
Your fierce eyes blinked with smokeN
Pine fumes that enhanced desireC
I helped to unbraid your hairM
In wonder and fear profoundO
You were humming your hunting tuneP
As it swept to the grassy groundO
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Our comrades the shaggy bearM
The tiger with velvet feetQ
The lion crept to the lightB
Whining for bullock meatQ
We fed them and stroked their necksR
They took their way to the fenS
Where they hunted or hid all nightB
No enemies they of menS
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Evil had entered notT
The cobra since defiledT
He watched when the beasts had goneU
Our kissing and singing wildT
Beautiful friend he wasV
Sage not a tempter grimW
Many a year should passX
Ere Satan should enter himW
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He danced while the evening doveY
And the nightingale kept in tuneP
I sang of the angel sunZ
You sang of the angel moonP
We sang of the ANGEL CHIEFA2
Who blew thro' the trees strange breathB2
Who helped in the hunt all dayT
And granted the bullock's deathB2
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O Eve with the fire lit breastT
And child face red and whiteT
I heaped the great logs highC2
That was our bridal nightT

Vachel Lindsay



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