Naaman's Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DDBB EEEE FFGG HHII'Go wash thyself in Jordan go wash thee and be clean ' | A |
Nay not for any Prophet will I plunge a toe therein | B |
For the banks of curious Jordan are parcelled into sites | C |
Commanded and embellished and patrolled by Israelites | C |
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There rise her timeless capitals of Empires daily born | D |
Whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn | D |
And here come hired youths and maids that feign to love or sin | B |
In tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin | B |
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And here be merry murtherings and steeds with fiery hooves | E |
And furious hordes with guns and swords and clamberings over rooves | E |
And horrid tumblings down from Heaven and flights with wheels and wings | E |
And always one weak virgin who is chased through all these things | E |
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And here is mock of faith and truth for children to behold | F |
And every door of ancient dirt reopened to the old | F |
With every word that taints the speech and show that weakens thought | G |
And Israel watcheth over each and doth not watch for nought | G |
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But Pharphar but Abana which Hermon launcheth down | H |
They perish fighting desert sands beyond Damascus town | H |
But yet their pulse is of the snows their strength is from on high | I |
And if they cannot cure my woes a leper will I die | I |
Rudyard Kipling
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