The Last Department Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAA CCDE FGAA HAAA AAIA AAJA KLMK AAAA NNKN| Twelve hundred million men are spread | A |
| About this Earth and I and You | B |
| Wonder when You and I are dead | A |
| quot What will those luckless millions do quot | A |
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| None whole or clean quot we cry quot or free from stain | C |
| Of favour quot Wait awhile till we attain | C |
| The Last Department where nor fraud nor fools | D |
| Nor grade nor greed shall trouble us again | E |
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| Fear Favour or Affection what are these | F |
| To the grim Head who claims our services | G |
| I never knew a wife or interest yet | A |
| Delay that pukka step miscalled quot decease quot | A |
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| When leave long overdue none can deny | H |
| When idleness of all Eternity | A |
| Becomes our furlough and the marigold | A |
| Our thriftless bullion minting Treasury | A |
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| Transferred to the Eternal Settlement | A |
| Each in his strait wood scantled office pent | A |
| No longer Brown reverses Smith's appeals | I |
| Or Jones records his Minute of Dissent | A |
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| And One long since a pillar of the Court | A |
| As mud between the beams thereof is wrought | A |
| And One who wrote on phosphates for the crops | J |
| Is subject matter of his own Report | A |
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| These be the glorious ends whereto we pass | K |
| Let Him who Is go call on Him who Was | L |
| And He shall see the mallie steals the slab | M |
| For currie grinder and for goats the grass | K |
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| A breath of wind a Border bullet's flight | A |
| A draught of water or a horse's firght | A |
| The droning of the fat Sheristadar | A |
| Ceases the punkah stops and falls the night | A |
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| For you or Me Do those who live decline | N |
| The step that offers or their work resign | N |
| Trust me To day's Most Indispensables | K |
| Five hundred men can take your place or mine | N |
Rudyard Kipling
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