Genesis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHJKLK MCNCMOPO MQBQRSBS TTUTVWXW YPZPA2B2TB2 TTC2TI was but a half grown boy | A |
You were a girl child slight | B |
Ah how weary you were | C |
You had led in the bullock fight | B |
We slew the bullock at length | D |
With knives and maces of stone | E |
And so your feet were torn | F |
Your lean arms bruised to the bone | E |
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Perhaps 'twas the slain beast's blood | G |
We drank or a root we ate | H |
Or our reveling evening bath | I |
In the fall by the garden gate | H |
But you turned to a witching thing | J |
Side glancing and frightened me | K |
You purred like a panther's cub | L |
You sighed like a shell from the sea | K |
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We knelt I caressed your hair | M |
By the light of the leaping fire | C |
Your fierce eyes blinked with smoke | N |
Pine fumes that enhanced desire | C |
I helped to unbraid your hair | M |
In wonder and fear profound | O |
You were humming your hunting tune | P |
As it swept to the grassy ground | O |
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Our comrades the shaggy bear | M |
The tiger with velvet feet | Q |
The lion crept to the light | B |
Whining for bullock meat | Q |
We fed them and stroked their necks | R |
They took their way to the fen | S |
Where they hunted or hid all night | B |
No enemies they of men | S |
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Evil had entered not | T |
The cobra since defiled | T |
He watched when the beasts had gone | U |
Our kissing and singing wild | T |
Beautiful friend he was | V |
Sage not a tempter grim | W |
Many a year should pass | X |
Ere Satan should enter him | W |
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He danced while the evening dove | Y |
And the nightingale kept in tune | P |
I sang of the angel sun | Z |
You sang of the angel moon | P |
We sang of the ANGEL CHIEF | A2 |
Who blew thro' the trees strange breath | B2 |
Who helped in the hunt all day | T |
And granted the bullock's death | B2 |
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O Eve with the fire lit breast | T |
And child face red and white | T |
I heaped the great logs high | C2 |
That was our bridal night | T |
Vachel Lindsay
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