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 done | A |
| As comfy as comfy could be | B |
| And I was to wait in the barn my dears | C |
| Because I was only three | B |
| And Teddy would run to the rainbow's foot | D |
| Because he was five and a man | E |
| And that's how it all began my dears | C |
| And that's how it all began | E |
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| Then we brought the lances down then the trumpets blew | F |
| When we went to Kandahar ridin' two an' two | F |
| Ridin' ridin' ridin' two an' two | F |
| Ta ra ra ra ra ra a | G |
| All the way to Kandahar | H |
| Ridin' two an' two | F |
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| The wolf cub at even lay hid in the corn | I |
| When the smoke of the cooking hung grey | J |
| He knew where the doe made a couch for her fawn | K |
| And he looked to his strength for his prey | J |
| But the moon swept the smoke wreaths away | J |
| And he turned from his meal in the villager's close | C |
| And he bayed to the moon as she rose | C |
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| quot I have a thousand men quot said he | B |
| quot To wait upon my will | L |
| And towers nine upon the Tyne | M |
| And three upon the Till quot | D |
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| quot And what care I for your men quot said she | B |
| quot Or towers from Tyne to Till | L |
| Sith you must go with me quot said she | B |
| quot To wait upon my will | L |
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| And you may lead a thousand men | N |
| Nor ever draw the rein | O |
| But before you lead the Fairy Queen | P |
| 'Twill burst your heart in twain quot | D |
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| He has slipped his foot from the stirrup bar | H |
| The bridle from his hand | D |
| And he is bound by hand and foot | D |
| To the Queen of Fairy Land | D |
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| quot If I have taken the common clay | J |
| And wrought it cunningly | J |
| In the shape of a God that was digged a clod | D |
| The greater honour to me quot | D |
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| quot If thou hast taken the common clay | J |
| And thy hands be not free | B |
| From the taint of the soil thou hast made thy spoil | J |
| The greater shame to thee quot | D |
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| The lark will make her hymn to God | D |
| The partridge call her brood | D |
| While I forget the heath I trod | D |
| The fields wherein I stood | D |
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| 'Tis dule to know not night from morn | I |
| But greater dule to know | Q |
| I can but hear the hunter's horn | I |
| That once I used to blow | Q |
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| There were three friends that buried the fourth | R |
| The mould in his mouth and the dust in his eyes | C |
| And they went south and east and north | R |
| The strong man fights but the sick man dies | C |
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| There were three friends that spoke of the dead | D |
| The strong man fights but the sick man dies | C |
| quot And would he were here with us now quot they said | D |
| quot The Sun in our face and the wind in our eyes quot | D |
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| Yet at the last ere our spearmen had found him | S |
| Yet at the last ere a sword thrust could save | T |
| Yet at the last with his masters around him | S |
| He spoke of the Faith as a master to slave | T |
| Yet at the last though the Kafirs had maimed him | S |
| Broken by bondage and wrecked by the reiver | B |
| Yet at the last tho' the darkness had claimed him | S |
| He colled on Allah and died a Believer | B |
Rudyard Kipling
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