Rimmon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FEFG EEEE HEIE EEEE JKJK LELE EEEE MNNO PPPP QRQA BCBC| After 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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