The Changelings Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL BMBN| R N V R Sea Constables | A |
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| Or ever the battered liners sank | B |
| With their passengers to the dark | C |
| I was head of a Walworth Bank | B |
| And you were a grocer's clerk | D |
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| I was a dealer in stocks and shares | E |
| And you in butters and teas | F |
| And we both abandoned our own affairs | E |
| And took to the dreadful seas | F |
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| Wet and worry about our ways | G |
| Panic onset and flight | H |
| Had us in charge for a thousand days | G |
| And thousand year long night | H |
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| We saw more than the nights could hide | I |
| More than the waves could keep | J |
| And certain faces over the side | I |
| Which do not go from our sleep | J |
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| We were more tired than words can tell | K |
| While the pied craft fled by | L |
| And the swinging mounds of the Western swell | K |
| Hoisted us Heavens high | L |
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| Now there is nothing not even our rank | B |
| To witness what we have been | M |
| And I am returned to my Walworth Bank | B |
| And you to your margarine | N |
Rudyard Kipling
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