A Pilgrim's Way Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFC GHIICC JKLMCC NNOPCC QQRRCCQCC| I do not look for holy saints to guide me on my way | A |
| Or male and female devilkins to lead my feet astray | A |
| If these are added I rejoice if not I shall not mind | B |
| So long as I have leave and choice to meet my fellow kind | B |
| For as we come and as we go and deadly soon go we | C |
| The people Lord Thy people are good enough for me | C |
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| Thus I will honour pious men whose virtue shines so bright | D |
| Though none are more amazed than I when I by chance do right | D |
| And I will pity foolish men for woe their sins have bred | E |
| Though ninety nine per cent of mine I brought on my own head | E |
| And Amorite or Eremite or General Averagee | F |
| The people Lord Thy people are good enough for me | C |
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| And when they bore me overmuch I will not shake mine ears | G |
| Recalling many thousand such whom I have bored to tears | H |
| And when they labour to impress I will not doubt nor scoff | I |
| Since I myself have done no less and sometimes pulled it off | I |
| Yea as we are and we are not and we pretend to be | C |
| The people Lord Thy people are good enough for me | C |
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| And when they work me random wrong as oftentimes hath been | J |
| I will not cherish hate too long my hands are none too clean | K |
| And when they do me random good I will not feign surprise | L |
| No more than those whom I have cheered with wayside charities | M |
| But as we give and as we take whate'er our takings be | C |
| The people Lord Thy people are good enough for me | C |
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| But when I meet with frantic folk who sinfully declare | N |
| There is no pardon for their sin the same I will not spare | N |
| Till I have proved that Heaven and Hell which in our hearts we have | O |
| Show nothing irredeemable on either side of the grave | P |
| For as we live and as we die if utter Death there be | C |
| The people Lord Thy people are good enough for me | C |
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| Deliver me from every pride the Middle High and Low | Q |
| That bars me from a brother's side whatever pride he show | Q |
| And purge me from all heresies of thought and speech and pen | R |
| That bid me judge him otherwise than I am judged Amen | R |
| That I may sing of Crowd or King or road borne company | C |
| That I may labour in my day vocation and degree | C |
| To prove the same in deed and name and hold unshakenly | Q |
| Where'er I go whate'er I know whoe'er my neighbor be | C |
| This single faith in Life and Death and to Eternity | C |
| The people Lord Thy people are good enough for me '' | - |
Rudyard Kipling
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