Hymn Of Breaking Strain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACACC DEDEFBFBB GHIHJKJAK ALAMNONOO NPNPNQNQQ ARARNSNNSS| The careful text books measure | A |
| Let all who build beware | B |
| The load the shock the pressure | A |
| Material can bear | B |
| So when the buckled girder | A |
| Lets down the grinding span | C |
| The blame of loss or murder | A |
| Is laid upon the man | C |
| Not on the Stuff the Man | C |
| - | |
| But in our daily dealing | D |
| With stone and steel we find | E |
| The Gods have no such feeling | D |
| Of justice toward mankind | E |
| To no set gauge they make us | F |
| For no laid course prepare | B |
| And presently o'ertake us | F |
| With loads we cannot bear | B |
| Too merciless to bear | B |
| - | |
| The prudent text books give it | G |
| In tables at the end | H |
| The stress that shears a rivet | I |
| Or makes a tie bar bend | H |
| What traffic wrecks macadam | J |
| What concrete should endure | K |
| But we poor Sons of Adam | J |
| Have no such literature | A |
| To warn us or make sure | K |
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| We hold all Earth to plunder | A |
| All Time and Space as well | L |
| Too wonder stale to wonder | A |
| At each new miracle | M |
| Till in the mid illusion | N |
| Of Godhead 'neath our hand | O |
| Falls multiple confusion | N |
| On all we did or planned | O |
| The mighty works we planned | O |
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| We only of Creation | N |
| Oh luckier bridge and rail | P |
| Abide the twin damnation | N |
| To fail and know we fail | P |
| Yet we by which sole token | N |
| We know we once were Gods | Q |
| Take shame in being broken | N |
| However great the odds | Q |
| The Burden or the Odds | Q |
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| Oh veiled and secret Power | A |
| Whose paths we seek in vain | R |
| Be with us in our hour | A |
| Of overthrow and pain | R |
| That we by which sure token | N |
| We know Thy ways are true | S |
| In spite of being broken | N |
| Because of being broken | N |
| May rise and build anew | S |
| Stand up and build anew | S |
Rudyard Kipling
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