The Naulahka Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAACD EAFA GHIAHJKAHLMADNOAPADD QDEAQA RARADJSJ JJTJJJUJ AEAEHHAA AKAAK AVAAAWXAAV DDDAA AADDYYAAXWJJLLZZRR DDAD YAAA AA2AA2 OB2OB2EB2C2D2C2D2QD2There was a strife 'twixt man and maid | A |
Oh that was at the birth of time | B |
But what befell 'twixt man and maid | A |
Oh that's beyond the grip of rhyme | B |
'Twas quot Sweet I must not bide with you quot | A |
And quot Love I cannot bide alone quot | A |
For both were young and both were true | C |
And both were hard as the nether stone | D |
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Beware the man who's crossed in love | E |
For pent up steam must find its vent | A |
Stand back when he is on the move | F |
And lend him all the Continent | A |
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Your patience Sirs The Devil took me up | G |
To the burned mountain over Sicily | H |
Fit place for me and thence I saw my Earth | I |
Not all Earth's splendour 'twas beyond my need | A |
And that one spot I love all Earth to me | H |
And her I love my Heaven What said I | J |
My love was safe from all the powers of Hell | K |
For you e'en you acquit her of my guilt | A |
But Sula nestling by our sail specked sea | H |
My city child of mine my heart my home | L |
Mine and my pride evil might visit there | M |
It was for Sula and her naked port | A |
Prey to the galleys of the Algerine | D |
Our city Sula that I drove my price | N |
For love of Sula and for love of her | O |
The twain were woven gold on sackcloth twined | A |
Past any sundering till God shall judge | P |
The evil and the good | A |
Now it is not good for the Christian's health to hustle the Aryan | D |
brown | D |
For the Christian riles and the Aryan smiles and he weareth the | Q |
Christian down | D |
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of | E |
the late deceased | A |
And the epitaph drear quot A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the | Q |
East quot | A |
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There is pleasure in the wet wet clay | R |
When the artist's hand is potting it | A |
There is pleasure in the wet wet lay | R |
When the poet's pad is blotting it | A |
There is pleasure in the shine of your picture on the line | D |
At the Royal Acade my | J |
But the pleasure felt in these is as chalk to Cheddar cheese | S |
When it comes to a well made Lie | J |
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To a quite unwreckable Lie | J |
To a most impeccable Lie | J |
To a water right fire proof angle iron sunk hinge time lock | T |
steel faced Lie | J |
Not a private handsome Lie | J |
But a pair and brougham Lie | J |
Not a little place at Tooting but a country house with shooting | U |
And a ring fence deer park Lie | J |
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When a lover hies abroad | A |
Looking for his love | E |
Azrael smiling sheathes his sword | A |
Heaven smiles above | E |
Earth and sea | H |
His servants be | H |
And to lesser compass round | A |
That his love be sooner found | A |
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We meet in an evil land | A |
That is near to the gates of Hell | K |
I wait for thy command | A |
To serve to speed or withstand | A |
And thou sayest I do not well | K |
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Oh Love the flowers so red | A |
Are only tongues of flame | V |
The earth is full of the dead | A |
The new killed restless dead | A |
There is danger beneath and o'erhead | A |
And I guard thy gates in fear | W |
Of words thou canst not hear | X |
Of peril and jeopardy | A |
Of signs thou canst not see | A |
And thou sayest 'tis ill that I came | V |
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This I saw when the rites were done | D |
And the lamps were dead and the Gods alone | D |
And the grey snake coiled on the altar stone | D |
Ere I fled from a Fear that I could not see | A |
And the Gods of the East made mouths at me | A |
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Beat off in our last fight were we | A |
The greater need to seek the sea | A |
For Fortune changeth as the moon | D |
To caravel and picaroon | D |
Then Eastward Ho or Westward Ho | Y |
Whichever wind may meetest blow | Y |
Our quarry sails on either sea | A |
Fat prey for such bold lads as we | A |
And every sun dried buccaneer | X |
Must hand and reef and watch and steer | W |
And bear great wrath of sea and sky | J |
Before the plate ships wallow by | J |
Now as our tall bows take the foam | L |
Let no man turn his heart to home | L |
Save to desire plunder more | Z |
And larger warehouse for his store | Z |
When treasure won from Santos Bay | R |
Shall make our sea washed village gay | R |
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Because I sought it far from men | D |
In deserts and alone | D |
I found it burning overhead | A |
The jewel of a Throne | D |
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Because I sought I sought it so | Y |
And spent my days to find | A |
It blazed one moment ere it left | A |
The blacker night behind | A |
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We be the Gods of the East | A |
Older than all | A2 |
Masters of Mourning and Feast | A |
How shall we fall | A2 |
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Will they gape for the husks that ye proffer | O |
Or yearn to your song | B2 |
And we have we nothing to offer | O |
Who ruled them so long | B2 |
In the fume of incense the clash of the cymbals the blare of | E |
the conch and the gong | B2 |
Over the strife of the schools | C2 |
Low the day burns | D2 |
Back with the kine from the pools | C2 |
Each one returns | D2 |
To the life that he knows where the altar flame glows and the | Q |
tulsi is trimmed in the urns | D2 |
Rudyard Kipling
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