En-dor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BABACC DEDECC FGFGCC HBHBCC IEIECJC KLKLCC| Behold there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at En dor I Samuel xxviii | A |
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| The road to En dor is easy to tread | B |
| For Mother or yearning Wife | A |
| There it is sure we shall meet our Dead | B |
| As they were even in life | A |
| Earth has not dreamed of the blessing in store | C |
| For desolate hearts on the road to En dor | C |
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| Whispers shall comfort us out of the dark | D |
| Hands ah God that we knew | E |
| Visions and voices look and hark | D |
| Shall prove that the tale is true | E |
| An that those who have passed to the further shore | C |
| May' be hailed at a price on the road to En dor | C |
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| But they are so deep in their new eclipse | F |
| Nothing they say can reach | G |
| Unless it be uttered by alien lips | F |
| And I framed in a stranger's speech | G |
| The son must send word to the mother that bore | C |
| 'Through an hireling's mouth 'Tis the rule of En dor | C |
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| And not for nothing these gifts are shown | H |
| By such as delight our dead | B |
| They must twitch and stiffen and slaver and groan | H |
| Ere the eyes are set in the head | B |
| And the voice from the belly begins Therefore | C |
| We pay them a wage where they ply at En dor | C |
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| Even so we have need of faith | I |
| And patience to follow the clue | E |
| Often at first what the dear one saith | I |
| Is babble or jest or untrue | E |
| Lying spirits perplex us sore | C |
| Till our loves and their lives are well known at | J |
| En dor | C |
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| Oh the road to En dor is the oldest road | K |
| And the craziest road of all | L |
| Straight it runs to the Witch's abode | K |
| As it did in the days of Saul | L |
| And nothing has changed of the sorrow in store | C |
| For such as go down on the road to En dor | C |
Rudyard Kipling
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