Chapter Headings - Life's Handicap Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDB EEFGGGFD HIHIJI KILIJIM NKGK BOPOQ RSSSTUTSVTVUW| The doors were wide the story saith | A |
| Out of the night came the patient wraith | A |
| He might not speak and he could not stir | B |
| A hair of the Baron's minniver | B |
| Speechless and strengthless a shadow thin | C |
| He roved the castle to find his kin | C |
| And oh 'twas a piteous sight to see | D |
| The dumb ghost follow his enemy | D |
| The Return of Imray | B |
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| Before my Spring I garnered Autumn's gain | E |
| Out of her time my field was white with grain | E |
| The year gave up her secrets to my woe | F |
| Forced and deflowered each sick season lay | G |
| In mystery of increase and decay | G |
| I saw the sunset ere men see the day | G |
| Who am too wise in all I should not know | F |
| Without Benefit of Clergy | D |
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| There's a convict more in the Central Jail | H |
| Behind the old mud wall | I |
| There's a lifter less on the Border trail | H |
| And the Queen's Peace over all | I |
| Dear boys | J |
| The Queen's Peace over all | I |
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| For we must bear our leader's blame | K |
| On us the shame will fall | I |
| If we lift our hand from a fettered land | L |
| And the Queer's Peace over all | I |
| Dear boys | J |
| The Queen's Peace over all | I |
| The Head of the District | M |
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| The Earth gave up her dead that tide | N |
| Into our camp he came | K |
| And said his say and went his way | G |
| And left our hearts aflame | K |
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| Keep tally on the gun butt score | B |
| The vengeance we must take | O |
| When God shall bring full reckoning | P |
| For our dead comrade's sake | O |
| The Man Who Was | Q |
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| The sky is lead and our faces are red | R |
| And the Gates of Hell are opened and riven | S |
| And the winds of Hell are loosened and driven | S |
| And the dust flies up in the face of Heaven | S |
| And the clouds come down in a fiery sheet | T |
| Heavy to raise and hard to be borne | U |
| And the soul of man is turned from his meat | T |
| Turned from the trifles for which he has striven | S |
| Sick in his body and heavy hearted | V |
| And his soul flies up like the dust in the street | T |
| Breaks from his flesh and is gone and departed | V |
| Like the blasts that they blow on the cholera horn | U |
| At the End of the Passage | W |
Rudyard Kipling
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