Song Of The Fifth River Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDEC FGFHIGIG HJKLMJGG NNOODPPE GGGGGQGR GGSTTUTU VGGGGAWWVA| Where first by Eden Tree | A |
| The Four Great Rivers ran | B |
| To each was appointed a Man | B |
| Her Prince and Ruler to be | A |
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| But after this was ordained | C |
| The ancient legends' tell | D |
| There came dark Israel | E |
| For whom no River remained | C |
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| Then He Whom the Rivers obey | F |
| Said to him quot Fling on the ground | G |
| A handful of yellow clay | F |
| And a Fifth Great River shall run | H |
| Mightier than these Four | I |
| In secret the Earth around | G |
| And Her secret evermore | I |
| Shall be shown to thee and thy Race quot | G |
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| So it was said and done | H |
| And deep in the veins of Earth | J |
| And fed by a thousand springs | K |
| That comfort the market place | L |
| Or sap the power of King | M |
| The Fifth Great River had birth | J |
| Even as it was foretold | G |
| The Secret River of Gold | G |
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| And Israel laid down | N |
| His sceptre and his crown | N |
| To brood on that River bank | O |
| Where the waters flashed and sank | O |
| And burrowed in earth and fell | D |
| And bided a season below | P |
| For reason that none might know | P |
| Save only Israel | E |
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| He is Lord of the Last | G |
| The Fifth most wonderful Flood | G |
| He hears Her thunder past | G |
| And Her Song is in his blood | G |
| He can foresay quot She will fall quot | G |
| For he knows which fountain dries | Q |
| Behind which desert belt | G |
| A thousand leagues to the South | R |
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| He can foresay quot She will rise quot | G |
| He knows what far snows melt | G |
| Along what mountain wall | S |
| A thousand leagues to the North | T |
| He snuffs the coming drouth | T |
| As he snuffs the coming rain | U |
| He knows what each will bring forth | T |
| And turns it to his gain | U |
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| A Ruler without a Throne | V |
| A Prince without a Sword | G |
| Israel follows his quest | G |
| In every land a guest | G |
| Of many lands a lord | G |
| In no land King is he | A |
| But the Fifth Great River keeps | W |
| The secret of Her deeps | W |
| For Israel alone | V |
| As it was ordered to be | A |
Rudyard Kipling
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