A Servant When He Reigneth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDAEAFGAGAAEA AHGHIAAA IJIJKKEK GAGALMEM| Three things make earth unquiet | A |
| And four she cannot brook | B |
| The godly Agur counted them | C |
| And put them in a book | B |
| Those Four Tremendous Curses | D |
| With which mankind is cursed | A |
| But a Servant when He Reigneth | E |
| Old Agur entered first | A |
| An Handmaid that is Mistress | F |
| We need not call upon | G |
| A Fool when he is full of Meat | A |
| Will fall asleep anon | G |
| An Odious Woman Married | A |
| May bear a babe and mend | A |
| But a Servant when He Reigneth | E |
| Is Confusion to the end | A |
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| His feet are swift to tumult | A |
| His hands are slow to toil | H |
| His ears are deaf to reason | G |
| His lips are loud in broil | H |
| He knows no use for power | I |
| Except to show his might | A |
| He gives no heed to judgment | A |
| Unless it prove him right | A |
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| Because he served a master | I |
| Before his Kingship came | J |
| And hid in all disaster | I |
| Behind his master's name | J |
| So when his Folly opens | K |
| The unnecessary hells | K |
| A Servant when He Reigneth | E |
| Throws the blame on some one else | K |
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| His vows are lightly spoken | G |
| His faith is hard to bind | A |
| His trust is easy boken | G |
| He fears his fellow kind | A |
| The nearest mob will move him | L |
| To break the pledge he gave | M |
| Oh a Servant when he Reigneth | E |
| Is more than ever slave | M |
Rudyard Kipling
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