The King And The Sea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDC EEFGGF HHFIIF JJFKKF LLMNNM OOMPPMQQFRSF TTF OOCDD| After His Realms and States were moved | A |
| To bare their hearts to the King they loved | B |
| Tendering themselves in homage and devotion | C |
| The Tide Wave up the Channel spoke | D |
| To all those eager exultant folk | D |
| 'Hear now what Man was given you by the Ocean | C |
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| 'There was no thought of Orb or Crown | E |
| When the single wooden chest went down | E |
| To the steering flat and the careless Gunroom haled him | F |
| To learn by ancient and bitter use | G |
| How neither Favour nor Excuse | G |
| Nor aught save his sheer self henceforth availed him | F |
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| 'There was no talk of birth or rank | H |
| By the slung hammock or scrubbed plank | H |
| In the steel grated prisons where cast him | F |
| But niggard hours and a narrow space | I |
| For rest and the naked light on his face | I |
| While the ship's traffic flowed unceasing past him | F |
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| 'Thus I schooled him to go and come | J |
| To speak at the word at a sign be dumb | J |
| To stand to his task not seeking others to aid him | F |
| To share in honour what praise might fall | K |
| For the task accomplished and over all | K |
| To swallow rebuke in silence Thus I made him | F |
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| 'I loosened every mood of the deep | L |
| On him a child and sick for sleep | L |
| Through the long watches that no time can measure | M |
| When I drove him deafened and choked and blind | N |
| At the wave tops cut and spun by the wind | N |
| Lashing him face and eyes with my displeasure | M |
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| 'I opened him all the guile of the seas | O |
| Their sullen swift sprung treacheries | O |
| To be fought or forestalled or dared or dismissed with laughter | M |
| I showed him Worth by Folly concealed | P |
| And the flaw in the soul that a chance revealed | P |
| Lessons remembered to bear fruit thereafter | M |
| 'I dealt him Power beneath his hand | Q |
| For trial and proof with his first Command | Q |
| Himself alone and no man to gainsay him | F |
| On him the End the Means and the Word | R |
| And the harsher judgment if he erred | S |
| And outboard Ocean waiting to betray him | F |
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| 'Wherefore when he came to be crowned | T |
| Strength in Duty held him bound | T |
| So that not Power misled nor ease ensnared him | F |
| Who had spared himself no more than his seas had spared him ' | - |
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| After His Lieges in all His Lands | O |
| Had laid their hands between His hands | O |
| And His ships thundered service and devotion | C |
| The Tide Wave ranging the Planet spoke | D |
| On all Our foreshores as it broke | D |
| 'Know now what Man gave you I the Ocean ' | - |
Rudyard Kipling
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