The Holy War Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A B CCDC CECE FGCBHICI JKJKLMCM KKKKKNCN OKOKKCKC KPKKKKKC HFHFKECE

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For here lay the excellent wisdom of him that built Mansoul that the walls could never be broken down nor hurt by the most mighty adverse potentate unless the townsmen gave consent thereto Bunyan's Holy WarB
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A tinker out of BedfordC
A vagrant oft in quodC
A privet under FairfaxD
A minister of GodC
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Two hundred years and thirtyC
Ere Armageddon cameE
His single hand portrayed itC
And Bunyan was his nameE
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He mapped for those who followF
The world in which we areG
quot This famous town of Mansoul quotC
That takes the Holy WarB
Her true and traitor peopleH
The gates along her wallI
From Eye Gate unto Feel GateC
John Bunyan showed them allI
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All enemy divisionsJ
Recruits of every classK
And highly screened positionsJ
For flame or poison gasK
The craft that we call modernL
The crimes that we call newM
John Bunyan had 'em typed and filedC
In sixteen Eighty twoM
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Likewise the Lords of LoosenessK
That hamper faith and worksK
The Perseverance DoubtersK
And Present Comfort shirksK
With brittle intellectualsK
Who crack beneath a strainN
John Bunyan met that helpful setC
In Charles the Second's reignN
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Emmanuel's vanguard dyingO
For right and not for rightsK
My Lord Apollyon lyingO
To the State kept StockholmitesK
The Pope the swithering NeutralsK
The Kaiser and his GottC
Their roles their goals their naked soulsK
He knew and drew the lotC
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Now he hath left his quartersK
In Bunhill Fields to lieP
The wisdom that he taught usK
Is proven prophecyK
One watchword through our ArmiesK
One answer from our LandsK
quot No dealings with DiabolusK
As long as Mansoul stands quotC
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A pedlar from a hovelH
The lowest of the lowF
The Father of the NovelH
Salvation's first DefoeF
Eight blinded generationsK
Ere Armageddon cameE
He showed us how to meet itC
And Bunyan was his nameE

Rudyard Kipling



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