L'envoi To "life's Handicap" Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGI JKJK FLFL IMIM| My new cut ashlar takes the light | A |
| Where crimson blank the windows flare | B |
| By my own work before the night | A |
| Great Overseer I make my prayer | B |
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| If there be good in that I wrought | C |
| Thy hand compelled it Master Thine | D |
| Where I have failed to meet Thy thought | C |
| I know through Thee the blame is mine | D |
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| One instant's toil to Thee denied | E |
| Stands all Eternity's offence | F |
| Of that I did with Thee to guide | E |
| To Thee through Thee be excellence | F |
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| Who lest all thought of Eden fade | G |
| Bring'st Eden to the craftsman's brain | H |
| Godlike to muse o'er his own trade | G |
| And Manlike stand with God again | I |
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| The depth and dream of my desire | J |
| The bitter paths wherein I stray | K |
| Thou knowest Who hast made the Fire | J |
| Thou knowest Who hast made the Clay | K |
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| One stone the more swings to her place | F |
| In that dread Temple of Thy Worth | L |
| It is enough that through Thy grace | F |
| I saw naught common on Thy earth | L |
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| Take not that vision from my ken | I |
| Oh whatsoe'er may spoil or speed | M |
| Help me to need no aid from men | I |
| That I may help such men as need | M |
Rudyard Kipling
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