Song Of The Wise Children Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGHG IJIK FLHL MNMN OPOP QRQR FSHS| When the darkened Fifties dip to the North | A |
| And frost and the fog divide the air | B |
| And the day is dead at his breaking forth | A |
| Sirs it is bitter beneath the Bear | B |
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| Far to Southward they wheel and glance | C |
| The million molten spears of morn | D |
| The spears of our deliverance | E |
| That shine on the house where we were born | D |
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| Flying fish about our bows | F |
| Flying sea fires in our wake | G |
| This is the road to our Father's House | H |
| Whither we go for our souls' sake | G |
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| We have forfeited our birthright | I |
| We have forsaken all things meet | J |
| We have forgotten the look of light | I |
| We have forgotten the scent of heart | K |
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| They that walk with shaded brows | F |
| Year by year in a shining land | L |
| They be men of our Father's House | H |
| They shall receive us and understand | L |
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| We shall go back by the boltless doors | M |
| To the life unaltered our childhood knew | N |
| To the naked feet on the cool dark floors | M |
| And the high ceiled rooms that the Trade blows through | N |
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| To the trumpet flowers and the moon beyond | O |
| And the tree toad's chorus drowning all | P |
| And the lisp of the split banana frond | O |
| That talked us to sleep when we were small | P |
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| The wayside magic the threshold spells | Q |
| Shall soon undo what the North has done | R |
| Because of the sights and the sounds and the smells | Q |
| That ran with our youth in the eye of the sun | R |
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| And Earth accepting shall ask no vows | F |
| Nor the Sea our love nor our lover the Sky | S |
| When we return to our Father's House | H |
| Only the English shall wonder why | S |
Rudyard Kipling
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