The Burial Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDF GHGHIJKJ LMLM NONO PQPQRSGS| C F Rhodes buried in the Matoppos April | A |
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| When that great Kings return to clay | B |
| Or Emperors in their pride | C |
| Grief of a day shall fill a day | B |
| Because its creature died | C |
| But we we reckon not with those | D |
| Whom the mere Fates ordain | E |
| This Power that wrought on us and goes | D |
| Back to the Power again | F |
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| Dreamer devout by vision led | G |
| Beyond our guess or reach | H |
| The travail of his spirit bred | G |
| Cities in place of speech | H |
| So huge the all mastering thought that drove | I |
| So brief the term allowed | J |
| Nations not words he linked to prove | K |
| His faith before the crowd | J |
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| It is his will that he look forth | L |
| Across the world he won | M |
| The granite of the ancient North | L |
| Great spaces washed with sun | M |
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| There shall he patient take his seat | N |
| As when the Death he dared | O |
| And there await a people's feet | N |
| In the paths that he prepared | O |
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| There till the vision he foresaw | P |
| Splendid and whole arise | Q |
| And unimagined Empires draw | P |
| To council 'neath his skies | Q |
| The immense and brooding Spirit still | R |
| Shall quicken and control | S |
| Living he was the land and dead | G |
| His soul shall be her soul | S |
Rudyard Kipling
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