The Hymn To Physical Pain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA BABA CACA DEDF FGCC ACAC HIHI| Dread Mother of Forgetfulness | A |
| Who when Thy reign begins | A |
| Wipest away the Soul's distress | A |
| And memory of her sins | A |
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| The trusty Worm that dieth not | B |
| The steadfast Fire also | A |
| By Thy contrivance are forgot | B |
| In a completer woe | A |
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| Thine are the lidless eyes of night | C |
| That stare upon our tears | A |
| Through certain hours which in our sight | C |
| Exceed a thousand years | A |
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| Thine is the thickness of the Dark | D |
| That presses in our pain | E |
| As Thine the Dawn that bids us mark | D |
| Life's grinning face again | F |
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| Thine is the weariness outworn | F |
| No promise shall relieve | G |
| That says at eve quot Would God 'twere morn quot | C |
| At morn quot Would God 'twere eve quot | C |
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| And when Thy tender mercies cease | A |
| And life unvexed is due | C |
| Instant upon the false release | A |
| The Worm and Fire renew | C |
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| Wherefore we praise Thee in the deep | H |
| And on our beds we pray | I |
| For Thy return that Thou may'st keep | H |
| The Pains of Hell at bay | I |
Rudyard Kipling
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