A School Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A ABCCDB EFGGGF HIJJJI KLMNOC HPQQQR AOIISO HSTTTU VWXXXW HFAAAF YOWWWO OAZZZA OA2AAAA2 OBCCCB| Prelude to quot Stalky Co quot | A |
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| quot Let us now praise famous men quot | A |
| Men of little showing | B |
| For their work continueth | C |
| And their work continueth | C |
| Broad and deep continues | D |
| Greater then their knowing | B |
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| Western wind and open surge | E |
| Took us from our mothers | F |
| Flung us on a naked shore | G |
| Twelve bleak houses by the shore | G |
| Seven summers by the shore | G |
| 'Mid two hundred brothers | F |
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| There we met with famous men | H |
| Set in office o'er us | I |
| And they beat on us with rods | J |
| Faithfully with many rods | J |
| Daily beat us on with rods | J |
| For the love they bore us | I |
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| Out of Egypt unto Troy | K |
| Over Himalaya | L |
| Far and sure our bands have gone | M |
| Hy Brazil or Babylon | N |
| Islands of the Southern Run | O |
| And Cities of Cathaia | C |
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| And we all praise famous men | H |
| Ancients of the College | P |
| For they taught us common sense | Q |
| Tried to teach us common sense | Q |
| Truth and God's Own Common Sense | Q |
| Which is more than knowledge | R |
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| Each degree of Latitude | A |
| Strung about Creation | O |
| Seeth one or more of us | I |
| Of one muster each of us | I |
| Diligent in that he does | S |
| Keen in his vocation | O |
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| This we learned from famous men | H |
| Knowing not its uses | S |
| When they showed in daily work | T |
| Man must finish off his work | T |
| Right or wrong his daily work | T |
| And without excuses | U |
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| Servant of the Staff and chain | V |
| Mine and fuse and grapnel | W |
| Some before the face of Kings | X |
| Stand before the face of Kings | X |
| Bearing gifts to divers Kings | X |
| Gifts of case and shrapnel | W |
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| This we learned from famous men | H |
| Teaching in our borders | F |
| Who declared it was best | A |
| Safest easiest and best | A |
| Expeditious wise and best | A |
| To obey your orders | F |
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| Some beneath the further stars | Y |
| Bear the greater burden | O |
| Set to serve the lands they rule | W |
| Save he serve no man may rule | W |
| Serve and love the lands they rule | W |
| Seeking praise nor guerdon | O |
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| This we learned from famous men | O |
| Knowing not we learned it | A |
| Only as the years went by | Z |
| Lonely as the years went by | Z |
| Far from help as years went by | Z |
| Plainer we discerned it | A |
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| Wherefore praise we famous men | O |
| From whose bays we borrow | A2 |
| They that put aside To day | A |
| All the joys of their To day | A |
| And with toil of their To day | A |
| Bought for us To morrow | A2 |
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| Bless and praise we famous men | O |
| Men of little showing | B |
| For their work continueth | C |
| And their work continueth | C |
| Broad and deep continueth | C |
| Great beyond their knowing | B |
Rudyard Kipling
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