A Ballad Of Jakkko Hill Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC ABABBCBC ABABBCBC D ABABBCBCOne moment bid the horses wait | A |
Since tiffin is not laid till three | B |
Below the upward path and strait | A |
You climbed a year ago with me | B |
Love came upon us suddenly | B |
And loosed an idle hour to kill | C |
A headless harmless armory | B |
That smote us both on Jakko Hill | C |
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Ah Heaven we would wait and wait | A |
Through Time and to Eternity | B |
Ah Heaven we could conquer Fate | A |
With more than Godlike constancy | B |
I cut the date upon a tree | B |
Here stand the clumsy figures still | C |
A D | B |
Damp in the mists on Jakko Hill | C |
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What came of high resolve and great | A |
And until Death fidelity | B |
Whose horse is waiting at your gate | A |
Whose 'rickshaw wheels ride over me | B |
No Saint's I swear and let me see | B |
To night what names your programme fill | C |
We drift asunder merrily | B |
As drifts the mist on Jakko Hill | C |
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L'Envoi | D |
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Princess behold our ancient state | A |
Has clean departed and we see | B |
'Twas Idleness we took for Fate | A |
That bound light bonds on you and me | B |
Amen Here ends the comedy | B |
Where it began in all good will | C |
Since Love and Leave together flee | B |
As driven mist on Jakko Hill | C |
Rudyard Kipling
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