The Burden Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDF GHGHEFDF BHBHDEDF IHIHJHKH| One grief on me is laid | A |
| Each day of every year | B |
| Wherein no soul can aid | A |
| Whereof no soul can hear | C |
| Whereto no end is seen | D |
| Except to grieve again | E |
| Ah Mary Magdalene | D |
| Where is there greater pain | F |
| - | |
| To dream on dear disgrace | G |
| Each hour of every day | H |
| To bring no honest face | G |
| To aught I do or say | H |
| To lie from morn till e'en | E |
| To know my lies are vain | F |
| Ah Mary Magdalene | D |
| Where can be greater pain | F |
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| To watch my steadfast fear | B |
| Attend mine every way | H |
| Each day of every year | B |
| Each hour of every day | H |
| To burn and chill between | D |
| To quake and rage again | E |
| Ah Mary Magdalene | D |
| Where shall be greater pain | F |
| - | |
| One grave to me was given | I |
| To guard till Judgment Day | H |
| But God looked down from Heaven | I |
| And rolled the Stone away | H |
| One day of all my years | J |
| One hour of that one day | H |
| His Angel saw my tears | K |
| And rolled the Stone away | H |
Rudyard Kipling
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