A Rector's Memory Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDEFGFG HIHIJKLK MNMOFPFPFQFQQ| St Andrews | A |
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| The Gods that are wiser than Learning | B |
| But kinder than Life have made sure | C |
| No mortal may boast in the morning | B |
| That even will find him secure | C |
| With naught for fresh faith or new trial | D |
| With little unsoiled or unsold | E |
| Can the shadow go back on the dial | D |
| Or a new world be given for the old | E |
| But he knows not that time shall awaken | F |
| As he knows not what tide shall lay bare | G |
| The heart of a man to be taken | F |
| Taken and changed unaware | G |
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| He shall see as he tenders his vows | H |
| The far guarded City arise | I |
| The power of the North 'twixt Her brows | H |
| The steel of the North in Her eyes | I |
| The sheer hosts of Heaven above | J |
| The grey warlock Ocean beside | K |
| And shall feel the full centuries move | L |
| To Her purpose and pride | K |
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| Though a stranger shall he understand | M |
| As though it were old in his blood | N |
| The lives that caught fire 'neath Her hand | M |
| The fires that were tamed to Her mood | O |
| And the roar of the wind shall refashion | F |
| And the wind driven torches recall | P |
| The passing of Time and the passion | F |
| Of Youth over all | P |
| And by virtue of magic unspoken | F |
| What need She should utter Her power | Q |
| The frost at his heart shall be broken | F |
| And his spirit be changed in that hour | Q |
| Changed and renewed in that hour | Q |
Rudyard Kipling
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