The Day's Work Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDEF GHII JJCC JJGHJ KLKL JJJJJ| We now held in captivity | A |
| Spring to our bondage nor grieve | B |
| See now how it is blesseder | C |
| Brothers to give than receive | B |
| Keep trust wherefore we were made | D |
| Paying the debt that we owe | E |
| For a clean thrust and the shear of the blade | D |
| Will carry us where would go | E |
| The Ship that Found Herself | F |
| - | |
| All the world over nursing their scars | G |
| Sir the old fighting men broke in the wars | H |
| Sit the old fighting men surly and grim | I |
| Mocking the lilt of the conquerors' hymn | I |
| - | |
| Dust of the battle o'erwhelmed them and hid | J |
| Fame never found them for aught that they did | J |
| Wounded and spent to the lazar they drew | C |
| Lining the road where the Legions roll through | C |
| - | |
| Sons of the Laurel who press to your meed | J |
| Worthy God's pity most you who succeed | J |
| Ere you go triumphing crowned to the stars | G |
| Pity poor fighting men broke in the wars | H |
| Collected | J |
| - | |
| - | |
| Put forth to watch unschooled alone | K |
| 'Twixt hostile earth and sky | L |
| The mottled lizard 'neath the stone | K |
| Is wiser here than I | L |
| - | |
| What stir across the haze of heat | J |
| What omen down the wind | J |
| The buck that break before my feet | J |
| They know but I am blind | J |
| Collected | J |
Rudyard Kipling
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about The Day's Work poem by Rudyard Kipling
Best Poems of Rudyard Kipling