Chapter Headings - The Light That Failed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDECE FFFGHF IJKJJCC BLML BLBL NOPO HQDQ JJQB JBJB QQQQ IRIR SCSC QCQC TUTUTBTB

So we settled it all when the storm was doneA
As comfy as comfy could beB
And I was to wait in the barn my dearsC
Because I was only threeB
And Teddy would run to the rainbow's footD
Because he was five and a manE
And that's how it all began my dearsC
And that's how it all beganE
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Then we brought the lances down then the trumpets blewF
When we went to Kandahar ridin' two an' twoF
Ridin' ridin' ridin' two an' twoF
Ta ra ra ra ra ra aG
All the way to KandaharH
Ridin' two an' twoF
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The wolf cub at even lay hid in the cornI
When the smoke of the cooking hung greyJ
He knew where the doe made a couch for her fawnK
And he looked to his strength for his preyJ
But the moon swept the smoke wreaths awayJ
And he turned from his meal in the villager's closeC
And he bayed to the moon as she roseC
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I have a thousand men said heB
To wait upon my willL
And towers nine upon the TyneM
And three upon the TillL
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And what care I for your men said sheB
Or towers from Tyne to TillL
Sith you must go with me said sheB
To wait upon my willL
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And you may lead a thousand menN
Nor ever draw the reinO
But before you lead the Fairy QueenP
'Twill burst your heart in twainO
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He has slipped his foot from the stirrup barH
The bridle from his handQ
And he is bound by hand and footD
To the Queen of Fairy LandQ
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If I have taken the common clayJ
And wrought it cunninglyJ
In the shape of a God that was digged a clodQ
The greater honour to meB
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If thou hast taken the common clayJ
And thy hands be not freeB
From the taint of the soil thou hast made thy spoilJ
The greater shame to theeB
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The lark will make her hymn to GodQ
The partridge call her broodQ
While I forget the heath I trodQ
The fields wherein I stoodQ
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'Tis dule to know not night from mornI
But greater dule to knowR
I can but hear the hunter's hornI
That once I used to blowR
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There were three friends that buried the fourthS
The mould in his mouth and the dust in his eyesC
And they went south and east and northS
The strong man fights but the sick man diesC
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There were three friends that spoke of the deadQ
The strong man fights but the sick man diesC
And would he were here with us now they saidQ
The sun in our face and the wind in our eyesC
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Yet at the last ere our spearmen had found himT
Yet at the last ere a sword thrust could saveU
Yet at the last with his masters around himT
He spoke of the Faith as a master to slaveU
Yet at the last though the Kafirs had maimed himT
Broken by bondage and wrecked by the reiverB
Yet at the last tho' the darkness had claimed himT
He called upon Allah and died a BelieverB

Rudyard Kipling



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