The Fabulists Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDD EFEGDD HIHIDD JKJLDD MNMMDD| A | |
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| When all the world would keep a matter hid | B |
| Since Truth is seldom Friend to any crowd | C |
| Men write in Fable as old AEsop did | B |
| Jesting at that which none will name aloud | C |
| And this they needs must do or it will fall | D |
| Unless they please they are not heard at all | D |
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| When desperate Folly daily laboureth | E |
| To work confusion upon all we have | F |
| When diligent Sloth demandeth Freedom's death | E |
| And banded Fear commandeth Honour's grave | G |
| Even in that certain hour before the fall | D |
| Unless men please they are not heard at all | D |
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| Needs must all please yet some not all for need | H |
| Needs must all toil yet some not all for gain | I |
| But that men taking pleasure may take heed | H |
| Whom present toil shall snatch from later pain | I |
| Thus some have toiled but their reward was small | D |
| Since though they pleased they were not heard at all | D |
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| This was the lock that lay upon our lips | J |
| This was the yoke that we have undergone | K |
| Denying us all pleasant fellowships | J |
| As in our time and generation | L |
| Our pleasures unpursued age past recall | D |
| And for our pains we are not heard at all | D |
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| What man hears aught except the groaning guns | M |
| What man heeds aught save what each instant brings | N |
| When each man's life all imaged life outruns | M |
| What man shall pleasure in imaginings | M |
| So it hath fallen as it was bound to fall | D |
| We are not nor we were not heard at all | D |
Rudyard Kipling
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