The Answer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEFGGHF FFIIJFFFEE| A Rose in tatters on the garden path | A |
| Cried out to God and murmured 'gainst His Wrath | A |
| Because a sudden wind at twilight's hush | B |
| Had snapped her stem alone of all the bush | C |
| And God Who hears both sun dried dust and sun | D |
| Had pity whispering to that luckless one | D |
| quot Sister in that thou sayest We did not well | E |
| What voices heardst thou when thy petals fell quot | F |
| And the Rose answered quot In that evil hour | G |
| A voice said Father wherefore falls the flower | G |
| For lo the very gossamers are still ' | H |
| And a voice answered Son by Allah's will ' quot | F |
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| Then softly as a rain mist on the sward | F |
| Came to the Rose the Answer of the Lord | F |
| quot Sister before We smote the dark in twain | I |
| Ere yet the stars saw one another plain | I |
| Time Tide and Space We bound unto the task | J |
| That thou shouldst fall and such an one should ask quot | F |
| Whereat the withered flower all content | F |
| Died as they die whose days are innocent | F |
| While he who questioned why the flower fell | E |
| Caught hold of God and saved his soul from Hell | E |
Rudyard Kipling
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