A Ballade Of Burial Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDCBC ECBCDCDC CFCFFCFC CGCGGCGC HIHIICIC JKJKACAC| Saint Praxed's ever was the Church for peace | A |
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| If down here I chance to die | B |
| Solemnly I beg you take | C |
| All that is left of I | B |
| To the Hills for old sake's sake | C |
| Pack me very thoroughly | D |
| In the ice that used to slake | C |
| Pegs I drank when I was dry | B |
| This observe for old sake's sake | C |
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| To the railway station hie | E |
| There a single ticket take | C |
| For Umballa goods train I | B |
| Shall not mind delay or shake | C |
| I shall rest contentedly | D |
| Spite of clamour coolies make | C |
| Thus in state and dignity | D |
| Send me up for old sake's sake | C |
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| Next the sleepy Babu wake | C |
| Book a Kalka van for four | F |
| Few I think will care to make | C |
| Journeys with me any more | F |
| As they used to do of yore | F |
| I shall need a special brake | C |
| 'Thing I never took before | F |
| Get me one for old sake's sake | C |
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| After that arrangements make | C |
| No hotel will take me in | G |
| And a bullock's back would break | C |
| 'Neath the teak and leaden skin | G |
| Tonga ropes are frail and thin | G |
| Or did I a back seat take | C |
| In a tonga I might spin | G |
| Do your best for old sake's sake | C |
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| After that your work is done | H |
| Recollect a Padre must | I |
| Mourn the dear departed one | H |
| Throw the ashes and the dust | I |
| Don't go down at once I trust | I |
| You will find excuse to snake | C |
| Three days' casual on the bust | I |
| Get your fun for old sake's sake | C |
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| I could never stand the Plains | J |
| Think of blazing June and May | K |
| Think of those September rains | J |
| Yearly till the Judgment Day | K |
| I should never rest in peace | A |
| I should sweat and lie awake | C |
| Rail me then on my decease | A |
| To the Hills for old sake's sake | C |
Rudyard Kipling
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