A Song Of Servitude. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBB A DEDD A FGFF F HIHH F JFJJ F KLKK F MNMM F OPOO K KQKK K RORR K KFKK K STSS S UVUU F WSWW| I | A |
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| This is a song of serfs that I have made | B |
| A song of sympathy for grief and joy | C |
| The old the young the lov'd and the betrayed | B |
| All all must serve for all must be obeyed | B |
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| II | A |
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| There are no tyrants but the serving ones | D |
| There are no servants but the ruling men | E |
| The Captain conquers with his army's guns | D |
| But he himself is conquered by his sons | D |
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| III | A |
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| What is a parent but a daughter's slave | F |
| A son's retainer when the lad is ill | G |
| The great Creator loves the good and brave | F |
| And makes a flower the spokesman of a grave | F |
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| IV | F |
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| The son is servant in his father's halls | H |
| The daughter is her mother's maid of work | I |
| The welkin wonders when the ocean calls | H |
| And earth accepts the raindrop when it falls | H |
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| V | F |
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| There are no ups in life there are no downs | J |
| For high and low are words of like degree | F |
| He who is light of heart when Fortune frowns | J |
| He is a king though nameless in the towns | J |
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| VI | F |
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| None is so lofty as the sage who prays | K |
| None so unhigh as he who will not kneel | L |
| The breeze is servant to the summer days | K |
| And he is bowed to most who most obeys | K |
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| VII | F |
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| These are the maxims that I take to heart | M |
| Do thou accept them reader for thine own | N |
| Love well thy work be truthful in the mart | M |
| And foes will praise thee when thy friends depart | M |
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| VIII | F |
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| None shall upbraid thee then for thine estate | O |
| Or show thee meaner than thou art in truth | P |
| Make friends with death and God who is so great | O |
| He will assist thee to a nobler fate | O |
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| IX | K |
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| None are unfit to serve upon their knees | K |
| The saints of prayer unseen but quick to hear | Q |
| The flowers are servants to the pilgrim bees | K |
| And wintry winds are tyrants of the trees | K |
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| X | K |
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| All things are good all things incur a debt | R |
| And all must pay the same or soon or late | O |
| The sun will rise betimes but he must set | R |
| And Man must seek the laws he would forget | R |
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| XI | K |
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| There are no mockeries in the universe | K |
| No false accounts no errors that will thrive | F |
| The work we do the good things we rehearse | K |
| Are boons of Nature basely named a curse | K |
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| XII | K |
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| Give us our daily bread the children pray | S |
| And mothers plead for them while thus they speak | T |
| But Give us work O God we men should say | S |
| That we may gain our bread from day to day | S |
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| XIII | S |
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| 'Tis not alone the crown that makes the king | U |
| 'Tis service done 'tis duty to his kind | V |
| The lark that soars so high is quick to sing | U |
| And proud to yield allegiance to the spring | U |
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| XIV | F |
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| And we who serve ourselves whate'er befall | W |
| Athwart the dangers of the day's behests | S |
| Oh let's not shirk at joy or sorrow's call | W |
| The service due to God who serves us all | W |
Eric Mackay
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