The Light That Failed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDECE FFFGHF IJKJJCC BLMD BLBL NOPD HDDD JJDD JBJD DDDD IQIQ RCRC DCDD STSTSBSB

So we settled it all when the storm was doneA
As comfy as comfy could beB
And I was to wait in the barn my dearsC
Because I was only threeB
And Teddy would run to the rainbow's footD
Because he was five and a manE
And that's how it all began my dearsC
And that's how it all beganE
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Then we brought the lances down then the trumpets blewF
When we went to Kandahar ridin' two an' twoF
Ridin' ridin' ridin' two an' twoF
Ta ra ra ra ra ra aG
All the way to KandaharH
Ridin' two an' twoF
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The wolf cub at even lay hid in the cornI
When the smoke of the cooking hung greyJ
He knew where the doe made a couch for her fawnK
And he looked to his strength for his preyJ
But the moon swept the smoke wreaths awayJ
And he turned from his meal in the villager's closeC
And he bayed to the moon as she roseC
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quot I have a thousand men quot said heB
quot To wait upon my willL
And towers nine upon the TyneM
And three upon the Till quotD
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quot And what care I for your men quot said sheB
quot Or towers from Tyne to TillL
Sith you must go with me quot said sheB
quot To wait upon my willL
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And you may lead a thousand menN
Nor ever draw the reinO
But before you lead the Fairy QueenP
'Twill burst your heart in twain quotD
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He has slipped his foot from the stirrup barH
The bridle from his handD
And he is bound by hand and footD
To the Queen of Fairy LandD
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quot If I have taken the common clayJ
And wrought it cunninglyJ
In the shape of a God that was digged a clodD
The greater honour to me quotD
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quot If thou hast taken the common clayJ
And thy hands be not freeB
From the taint of the soil thou hast made thy spoilJ
The greater shame to thee quotD
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The lark will make her hymn to GodD
The partridge call her broodD
While I forget the heath I trodD
The fields wherein I stoodD
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'Tis dule to know not night from mornI
But greater dule to knowQ
I can but hear the hunter's hornI
That once I used to blowQ
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There were three friends that buried the fourthR
The mould in his mouth and the dust in his eyesC
And they went south and east and northR
The strong man fights but the sick man diesC
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There were three friends that spoke of the deadD
The strong man fights but the sick man diesC
quot And would he were here with us now quot they saidD
quot The Sun in our face and the wind in our eyes quotD
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Yet at the last ere our spearmen had found himS
Yet at the last ere a sword thrust could saveT
Yet at the last with his masters around himS
He spoke of the Faith as a master to slaveT
Yet at the last though the Kafirs had maimed himS
Broken by bondage and wrecked by the reiverB
Yet at the last tho' the darkness had claimed himS
He colled on Allah and died a BelieverB

Rudyard Kipling



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