The Covenant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFGHFGWe thought we ranked above the chance of ill | A |
Others might fall not we for we were wise | B |
Merchants in freedom So of our free will | A |
We let our servants drug our strength with lies | B |
The pleasure and the poison had its way | C |
On us as on the meanest till we learned | D |
That he who lies will steal who steals will slay | C |
Neither God's judgment nor man's heart was turned | D |
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Yet there remains His Mercy to be sought | E |
Through wrath and peril till we cleanse the wrong | F |
By that last right which our forefathers claimed | G |
When their Law failed them and its stewards were bought | H |
This is our cause God help us and make strong | F |
Our will to meet Him later unashamed | G |
Rudyard Kipling
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