Possibilities Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EBBE FBBF GHCG IBBI CJC BCBB KLMK NOPN| Ay lay him 'neath the Simla pine | A |
| A fortnight fully to be missed | B |
| Behold we lose our fourth at whist | B |
| A chair is vacant where we dine | A |
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| His place forgets him other men | C |
| Have bought his ponies guns and traps | D |
| His fortune is the Great Perhaps | D |
| And that cool rest house down the glen | C |
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| Whence he shall hear as spirits may | E |
| Our mundance revel on the height | B |
| Shall watch each flashing 'rickshaw light | B |
| Sweep on to dinner dance and play | E |
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| Benmore shall woo him to the ball | F |
| With lighted rooms and braying band | B |
| And he shall hear and understand | B |
| quot Dream Faces quot better than us all | F |
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| For think you as the vapours flee | G |
| Across Sanjaolie after rain | H |
| His soul may climb the hill again | C |
| To each of field of victory | G |
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| Unseen who women held so dear | I |
| The strong man's yearning to his kind | B |
| Shall shake at most the window blind | B |
| Or dull awhile the card room's cheer | I |
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| In his own place of power unkown | C |
| His Light o' Love another's flame | J |
| And he and alien and alone | C |
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| Yet may he meet with many a friend | B |
| Shrewd shadows lingering long unseen | C |
| Among us when quot God save the Queen quot | B |
| Shows even quot extras quot have an end | B |
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| And when we leave the heated room | K |
| And when at four the lights expire | L |
| The crew shall gather round the fire | M |
| And mock our laughter in the gloom | K |
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| Talk as we talked and they ere death | N |
| Flirt wanly dance in ghostly wise | O |
| With ghosts of tunes for melodies | P |
| And vanish at the morning's breath | N |
Rudyard Kipling
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