A Recantation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGFG HIHI HJHJ HKHK LMLM BNBN HHHH HOHO HPHP| A | |
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| What boots it on the Gods to call | B |
| Since answered or unheard | C |
| We perish with the Gods and all | B |
| Things made except the Word | C |
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| Ere certain Fate had touched a heart | D |
| By fifty years made cold | E |
| I judged thee Lyde and thy art | D |
| O'erblown and over bold | E |
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| But he but he of whom bereft | F |
| I suffer vacant days | G |
| He on his shield not meanly left | F |
| He cherished all thy lays | G |
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| Witness the magic coffer stocked | H |
| With convoluted runes | I |
| Wherein thy very voice was locked | H |
| And linked to circling tunes | I |
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| Witness thy portrait smoke defiled | H |
| That decked his shelter place | J |
| Life seemed more present wrote the child | H |
| Beneath thy well known face | J |
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| And when the grudging days restored | H |
| Him for a breath to home | K |
| He with fresh crowds of youth adored | H |
| Thee making mirth in Rome | K |
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| Therefore I humble join the hosts | L |
| Loyal and loud who bow | M |
| To thee as Queen of Song and ghosts | L |
| For I remember how | M |
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| Never more rampant rose the Hall | B |
| At thy audacious line | N |
| Than when the news came in from Gaul | B |
| Thy son had followed mine | N |
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| But thou didst hide it in thy breast | H |
| And capering took the brunt | H |
| Of blaze and blare and launched the jest | H |
| That swept next week the front | H |
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| Singer to children Ours possessed | H |
| Sleep before noon but thee | O |
| Wakeful each midnight for the rest | H |
| No holocaust shall free | O |
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| Yet they who use the Word assigned | H |
| To hearten and make whole | P |
| Not less than Gods have served mankind | H |
| Though vultures rend their soul | P |
Rudyard Kipling
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