The Cure Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAAAA CDCDEDED FGFHIJIJ KLDLMNMN OAOAADAD PQPQ| Long years ago ere R lls or R ce | A |
| Trebled the mileage man could cover | B |
| When Sh nks's Mare was H bs n's Choice | A |
| And Bl r ot had not flown to Dover | B |
| When good hoteliers looked askance | A |
| If any power save horse flesh drew vans | A |
| 'Time was in easy hand made France | A |
| I met the Cure of Saint Juvans | A |
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| He was no babbler but at last | C |
| One learned from things he left unspoken | D |
| How in some fiery far off past | C |
| His and a woman's heart were broken | D |
| He sought for death but found it not | E |
| Yet seeking found his true vocation | D |
| And fifty years by all forgot | E |
| Toiled at a simple folk's salvation | D |
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| His pay was lower than our Dole | F |
| The piteous little church he tended | G |
| Had neither roof nor vestments whole | F |
| Save what his own hard fingers mended | H |
| While any hour at every need | I |
| As Conscience or La Grippe assailed 'em | J |
| His parish bade him come with speed | I |
| And foot or cart he never failed 'em | J |
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| His speech to suit his hearers ran | K |
| From pure Parisian to gross peasant | L |
| With interludes North African | D |
| If any Legionnaire were present | L |
| And when some wine ripe atheist mocked | M |
| His office or the Faith he knelt in | N |
| He left the sinner dumb and shocked | M |
| By oaths his old Battalion dealt in | N |
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| And he was learned in Death and Life | O |
| And he was Logic's self as France is | A |
| He knew his flock man maid and wife | O |
| Their forebears failings and finances | A |
| Spite Avarice Devotion Lies | A |
| Passion ablaze or sick Obsession | D |
| He dealt with each physician wise | A |
| Stern or most tender at Confession | D |
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| To day God knows where he may lie | P |
| His Cross of weathered beads above him | Q |
| But one not worthy to untie | P |
| His shoe string prays you read and love him | Q |
Rudyard Kipling
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