Rebirth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDD EFEFGH IJKJLL MNCOPP QRSRTT| A | |
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| If any God should say | B |
| quot I will restore | C |
| The world her yesterday | B |
| Whole as before | C |
| My Judgment blasted it quot who would not lift | D |
| Heart eye and hand in passion o'er the gift | D |
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| If any God should will | E |
| To wipe from mind | F |
| The memory of this ill | E |
| Which is Mankind | F |
| In soul and substance now who would not bless | G |
| Even to tears His loving tenderness | H |
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| If any God should give | I |
| Us leave to fly | J |
| These present deaths we live | K |
| And safely die | J |
| In those lost lives we lived ere we were born | L |
| What man but would not laugh the excuse to scorn | L |
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| For we are what we are | M |
| So broke to blood | N |
| And the strict works of war | C |
| So long subdued | O |
| To sacrifice that threadbare Death commands | P |
| Hardly observance at our busier hands | P |
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| Yet we were what we were | Q |
| And fashioned so | R |
| It pleases us to stare | S |
| At the far show | R |
| Of unbelievable years and shapes that flit | T |
| In our own likeness on the edge of it | T |
Rudyard Kipling
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