Jobson's Amen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCD EEBB FFG HHBB IIJ KKBB LLMM| Blessed be the English and all their ways and works | A |
| Cursed be the Infidels Hereticks and Turks | A |
| Amen quo' Jobson but where I used to lie | B |
| Was neither Candle Bell nor Book to curse my brethren by | B |
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| But a palm tree in full bearing bowing down bowing down | C |
| To a surf that drove unsparing at the brown walled town | C |
| Conches in a temple oil lamps in a dome | D |
| And a low moon out of Africa said 'This way home ' | - |
| - | |
| Blessed be the English and all that they profess | E |
| Cursed be the Savages that prance in nakedness | E |
| Amen quo' Jobson but where I used to lie | B |
| Was neither shirt nor pantaloons to catch my brethren by | B |
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| But a well wheel slowly creaking going round going round | F |
| By a water channel leaking over drowned warm ground | F |
| Parrots very busy in the trellised pepper vine | G |
| And a high sun over Asia shouting 'Rise and shine ' | - |
| - | |
| Bless d be the English and everything they own | H |
| Cursed be the Infidels that bow to wood and stone | H |
| Amen quo' Jobson but where I used to lie | B |
| Was neither pew nor Gospelleer to save my brethren by | B |
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| But a desert stretched and stricken left and right left and right | I |
| Where the piled mirages thicken under white hot light | I |
| A skull beneath a sand hill and a viper coiled inside | J |
| And a red wind out of Libya roaring 'Run and hide ' | - |
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| Bless d be the English and all they make or do | K |
| Curs d be the Hereticks who doubt that this is true | K |
| Amen quo' Jobson but where I mean to die | B |
| Is neither rule nor calliper to judge the matter by | B |
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| But Himalaya heavenward heading sheer and vast sheer and vast | L |
| In a million summits bedding on the last world's past | L |
| A certain sacred mountain where the scented cedars climb | M |
| And the feet of my Beloved hurrying back through Time | M |
Rudyard Kipling
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