The Explanation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEEEFG HHHII| Love and Death once ceased their strife | A |
| At the Tavern of Man's Life | A |
| Called for wine and threw alas | B |
| Each his quiver on the grass | B |
| When the bout was o'er they found | C |
| Mingled arrows strewed the ground | C |
| Hastily they gathered then | D |
| Each the loves and lives of men | D |
| Ah the fateful dawn deceived | E |
| Mingled arrows each one sheaved | E |
| Death's dread armoury was stored | E |
| With the shafts he most abhorred | E |
| Love's light quiver groaned beneath | F |
| Venom headed darts of Death | G |
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| Thus it was they wrought our woe | H |
| At the Tavern long ago | H |
| Tell me do our masters know | H |
| Loosing blindly as they fly | I |
| Old men love while young men die | I |
Rudyard Kipling
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