The Expert Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEFEGG HEIEEE JKJKLL| Youth that trafficked long with Death | A |
| And to second life returns | B |
| Squanders little time or breath | A |
| On his fellow man's concerns | B |
| Earned peace is all he asks | C |
| To fulfill his broken tasks | C |
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| Yet if he find war at home | D |
| Waspish and importunate | E |
| He hath means to overcome | F |
| Any warrior at his gate | E |
| For the past he buried brings | G |
| Back unburiable things | G |
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| Nights that he lay out to spy | H |
| Whence and when the raid might start | E |
| Or prepared in secrecy | I |
| Sudden blows to break its heart | E |
| All the lore of No Man's Land | E |
| Steels his soul and arms his hand | E |
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| So if conflict vex his life | J |
| Where he thought all conflict done | K |
| He resuming ancient strife | J |
| Springs his mine or trains his gun | K |
| And in mirth more dread than wrath | L |
| Wipes the nuisance from his path | L |
Rudyard Kipling
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