Hymn Of The Triumphant Airman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EAEA CCCC FFFG CHCH ACAC CICI ACAC JAJA AAAA EKEK FAFA JCJC

Oh long had we palteredA
With bridle and girthB
Ere those horses were halteredA
That gave us the EarthB
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Ere the Flame and the FountainC
The Spark and the WheelD
Sank Ocean and MountainC
Alike 'neath our keelD
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But the Wind in her blowingE
The bird on the windA
Made naught of our goingE
And left us behindA
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Till the gale was outdrivenC
The gull overflownC
And there matched us in HeavenC
The Sun God aloneC
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He only the masterF
We leagued to o'erthrowF
He only the fasterF
And therefore our foeG
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Light steals to uncurtainC
The dim shaping skiesH
That arch and make certainC
Where he shall ariseH
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We lift to the onsetA
We challenge anewC
From sunrise to sunsetA
Apollo pursueC
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What ails thee O GoldenC
Thy Chariot is stillI
What Power has withholdenC
The Way from the WillI
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Lo Hesper hath paled notA
Nor darkness withdrawnC
The Hours have availed notA
To lead forth the DawnC
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Do they flinch from full trialJ
The Coursers of DayA
The shade on our dialJ
Moves swifter than theyA
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We fleet but thou stayestA
A God unreleasedA
And still thou delayestA
Low down in the EastA
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A beacon faint burningE
A glare that decaysK
As the blasts of our spurningE
Blow backward its blazeK
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The mid noon grows colderF
Night rushes to meetA
And the curve of Earth's shoulderF
Heaves up thy defeatA
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Storm on at that portalJ
We have thee in prisonC
Apollo immortalJ
Thou hast not arisenC

Rudyard Kipling



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