Rimmon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FEFG EEEE HEIE EEEE JKJK LELE EEEE MNNO PPPP QRQA BCBCAfter Boer War | A |
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Duly with knees that feign to quake | B |
Bent head and shaded brow | C |
Yet once again for my father's sake | B |
In Rimmon's House I bow | C |
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The curtains part the trumpet blares | D |
And the eunuchs howl aloud | E |
And the gilt swag bellied idol glares | D |
Insolent over the crowd | E |
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quot This is Rimmon Lord of the Earth | F |
quot Fear Him and bow the knee quot | E |
And I watch my comrades hide their mirth | F |
That rode to the wars with me | G |
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For we remember the sun and the sand | E |
And the rocks whereon we trod | E |
Ere we came to a scorched and a scornful land | E |
That did not know our God | E |
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As we remember the sacrifice | H |
Dead men an hundred laid | E |
Slain while they served His mysteries | I |
And that He would not aid | E |
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Not though we gashed ourselves and wept | E |
For the high priest bade us wait | E |
Saying He went on a journey or slept | E |
Or was drunk or had taken a mate | E |
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Praise ye Rimmon King of Kings | J |
Who ruleth Earth and Sky | K |
And again I bow as the censer swings | J |
And the God Enthroned goes by | K |
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Ay we remember His sacred ark | L |
And the virtuous men that knelt | E |
To the dark and the hush behind the dark | L |
Wherein we dreamed He dwelt | E |
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Until we entered to hale Him out | E |
And found no more than an old | E |
Uncleanly image girded about | E |
The loins with scarlet and gold | E |
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Him we o'erset with the butts of our spears | M |
Him and his vast designs | N |
To be scorn of our muleteers | N |
And the jest of our halted line | O |
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By the picket pins that the dogs defile | P |
In the dung and the dust He lay | P |
Till the priests ran and chattered awhile | P |
And we wiped Him and took Him away | P |
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Hushing the matter before it was known | Q |
They returned to our fathers afar | R |
And hastily set Him afresh on His throne | Q |
Because he had won us the war | A |
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Wherefore with knees that feign to quake | B |
Bent head and shaded brow | C |
To this dog for my father's sake | B |
In the Rimmon's House I bow | C |
Rudyard Kipling
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