A School Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A ABCCDB EFGGGF HIJJJI KLMNOC HPQQQR AOIISO HSTTTU VWXXXW HFAAAF YOWWWO OAZZZA OA2AAAA2 OBCCCBPrelude 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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