Our Fathers Also Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG CHCH IJIJ KLKL MNMO CDED| Thrones Powers Dominions Peoples Kings | A |
| Are changing 'neath our hand | B |
| Our fathers also see these things | A |
| But they do not understand | B |
| - | |
| By they are by with mirth and tears | C |
| Wit or the works of Desire | D |
| Cushioned about on the kindly years | E |
| Between the wall and the fire | D |
| - | |
| The grapes are pressed the corn is shocked | F |
| Standeth no more to glean | G |
| For the Gates of Love and Learning locked | F |
| When they went out between | G |
| - | |
| All lore our Lady Venus bares | C |
| Signalled it was or told | H |
| By the dear lips long given to theirs | C |
| And longer to the mould | H |
| - | |
| All Profit all Device all Truth | I |
| Written it was or said | J |
| By the mighty men of their mighty youth | I |
| Which is mighty being dead | J |
| - | |
| The film that floats before their eyes | K |
| The Temple's Veil they call | L |
| And the dust that on the Shewbread lies | K |
| Is holy over all | L |
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| Warn them of seas that slip our yoke | M |
| Of slow conspiring stars | N |
| The ancient Front of Things unbroke | M |
| But heavy with new wars | O |
| - | |
| By they are by with mirth and tears | C |
| Wit or the waste of Desire | D |
| Cushioned about on the kindly years | E |
| Between the wall and the fire | D |
Rudyard Kipling
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