The Iron Hand Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDE FGHGIJIJ KLLMNONP LDL MQMQ RLRLSDSD| 'The Government of India has been pleased to sanction the infliction of a fine of etc ' | A |
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| To him that reads with careless eyes | B |
| My present theme affords | C |
| But little scope for enterprise | B |
| In buttering one's lords | C |
| Fines he would urge have always bulked | D |
| Largely to Those that rule | E |
| For plainly every man They mulct | D |
| Contributes to the pool | E |
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| But when in ages dead and gone | F |
| Our fathers fought with Sin | G |
| However hard they laid it on | H |
| They didn't rub it in | G |
| While These not only bring to bear | I |
| Their dark prerogatives | J |
| But diabolically air | I |
| The pleasure that it gives | J |
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| Here is the Iron Hand that builds | K |
| Our realms beyond the sea | L |
| No suaviter in modo gilds | L |
| Their fortiter in re | M |
| Here is no washy velvet glove | N |
| To pad the Fist of Fear | O |
| None of your guiding charms of Love | N |
| None of your hogwash here | P |
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| No From Their thrones amid the stars | L |
| They glower athwart the land | D |
| Implacable with 'eye like Mars | L |
| To threaten and command ' | - |
| Too cold too truculent to stay | M |
| The awful bolt They fling | Q |
| They make no bones about it They | M |
| Are pleased to do this thing | Q |
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| Blind to the victim's mask of woe | R |
| Deaf to his poignant howls | L |
| No pity stirs Their bosoms no | R |
| Reluctance wrings Their bow'ls | L |
| By prompt and ready cash alone | S |
| Their wrath shall be appeased | D |
| Who pile it on like gods and own | S |
| Like men to being pleased | D |
John Kendall (dum-dum)
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