To Mr. Rudyard Kipling[1] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEFEGG HIHIJJ KLKLJJ MNMNOO PEPEQQ IRIRSS| True laureate of the Anglo Saxon race | A |
| Whose words have won the hearts of young and old | B |
| So free from cant and yet replete with grace | A |
| Or prose or verse it glows like burnished gold | B |
| Thy muse is ever loyal to the truth | C |
| And those who know thee best forget thy youth | C |
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| Unbend thy bow and rest with us awhile | D |
| Thy active mind requires a healthy brain | E |
| Death's shadow has gone back upon the dial | F |
| And thou art left a higher goal to gain | E |
| The future will eclipse the brilliant past | G |
| Fear not thy ideal will be reached at last | G |
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| To do the grandest work one must needs be | H |
| Endowed by Nature for the master task | I |
| Yea more he must possess the light to see | H |
| Those mysteries which nature seems to mask | I |
| And this can gain but in the royal way | J |
| 'Tis dread experience leads from gloom to day | J |
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| The Master saw a struggling youth and smiled | K |
| Pleased with his work in main but knowing too | L |
| His latent power if it could be beguiled | K |
| From hiding place much greater work would do | L |
| He took His servant's hand and led the way | J |
| Through vale of sorrow up to brighter day | J |
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| By other path this height is ne'er attained | M |
| Nor books nor schools its hidden wealth unveil | N |
| Philosophy and art have treasures gained | M |
| But in this quest they must forever fail | N |
| Experience only can the gift impart | O |
| Bring needed light and regulate the heart | O |
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| To solace those who grieve one must have felt | P |
| In his own heart the rending pangs of pain | E |
| The heart that suffers not will never melt | P |
| At others' woes though free from selfish stain | E |
| What we have felt and seen we truly know | Q |
| And thus endowed our tears for others flow | Q |
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| So leave thy much loved lyre awhile unstrung | I |
| Till health again invigorate thy frame | R |
| With brain renewed with vigorous heart and lung | I |
| Take up thy work once more and greater fame | R |
| A richer man by far than e'er before | S |
| For thou hast treasure on the other shore | S |
Joseph Horatio Chant
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