Natural Theology Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDCDC E FCFCGCGC H IGICICIC H ICICICIC A GCGCECEC J KLKL E ICICMCMC| Primitive | A |
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| I ate my fill of a whale that died | B |
| And stranded after a month at sea | C |
| There is a pain in my inside | B |
| Why have the Gods afflicted me | C |
| Ow I am purged till I am a wraith | D |
| Wow I am sick till I cannot see | C |
| What is the sense of Religion and Faith | D |
| Look how the Gods have afflicted me | C |
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| Pagan | E |
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| How can the skin of rat or mouse hold | F |
| Anything more than a harmless flea | C |
| The burning plague has taken my household | F |
| Why have my Gods afflicted me | C |
| All my kith and kin are deceased | G |
| Though they were as good as good could be | C |
| I will out and batter the family priest | G |
| Because my Gods have afflicted me | C |
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| Medieval | H |
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| My privy and well drain into each other | I |
| After the custom of Christendie | G |
| Fevers and fluxes are wasting my mother | I |
| Why has the Lord afflicted me | C |
| The Saints are helpless for all I offer | I |
| So are the clergy I used to fee | C |
| Henceforward I keep my cash in my coffer | I |
| Because the Lord has afflicted me | C |
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| Material | H |
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| I run eight hundred hens to the acre | I |
| They die by dozens mysteriously | C |
| I am more than doubtful concerning my Maker | I |
| Why has the Lord afflicted me | C |
| What a return for all my endeavour | I |
| Not to mention the L S D | C |
| I am an atheist now and for ever | I |
| Because this God has afflicted me | C |
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| Progressive | A |
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| Money spent on an Army or Fleet | G |
| Is homicidal lunacy | C |
| My son has been killed in the Mons retreat | G |
| Why is the Lord afflicting me | C |
| Why are murder pillage and arson | E |
| And rape allowed by the Deity | C |
| I will write to the Times deriding our parson | E |
| Because my God has afflicted me | C |
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| Chorus | J |
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| We had a kettle we let it leak | K |
| Our not repairing it made it worse | L |
| We haven't had any tea for a week | K |
| The bottom is out of the Universe | L |
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| Conclusion | E |
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| This was none of the good Lord's pleasure | I |
| For the Spirit He breathed in Man is free | C |
| But what comes after is measure for measure | I |
| And not a God that afflicteth thee | C |
| As was the sowing so the reaping | M |
| Is now and evermore shall be | C |
| Thou art delivered to thine own keeping | M |
| Only Thyself hath afflicted thee | C |
Rudyard Kipling
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