The Peace Of Dives Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCA DDEE FFGGF HHIJH KKLL LLLLL FFFFF LLMML EELL LLLL LLLLL LLLLL NNMM LLLLL LLMML MMOOM PPHHP FFMMF QQLLQ MMLLM MMKKM LLLL| The Word came down to Dives in Torment where he lay | A |
| 'Our World is full of wickedness My Children maim and slay | A |
| 'And the Saint and Seer and Prophet | B |
| 'Can make no better of it | C |
| 'Than to sanctify and prophesy and pray | A |
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| 'Rise up rise up thou Dives and take again thy gold | D |
| 'And thy women and thy housen as they were to thee of old | D |
| 'It may be grace hath found thee | E |
| 'In the furnace where We bound thee | E |
| 'And that thou shalt bring the peace My Son foretold ' | - |
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| Then merrily rose Dives and leaped from out his fire | F |
| And walked abroad with diligence to do the Lord's desire | F |
| And anon the battles ceased | G |
| And the captives were released | G |
| And Earth had rest from Goshen to Gadire | F |
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| The Word came down to Satan that raged and roared alone | H |
| 'Mid rhe shouring of the peoples by the cannon overthrown | H |
| But the Prophets Saints and Seers | I |
| Set each other by the ears | J |
| For each would claim the marvel as his own | H |
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| 'Rise up rise up thou Satan upon the Earth to go | K |
| 'And prove the Peace of Dives if it be good or no | K |
| 'For all that he hath planned | L |
| 'We deliver to thy hand | L |
| 'As thy skill shall serve to break it or bring low ' | - |
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| Then mightily rose Satan and about the Earth he hied | L |
| And breathed on Kings in idleness and Princes drunk with pride | L |
| But for all the wrong he breathed | L |
| There was never sword unsheathed | L |
| And the fires he lighted flickered out and died | L |
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| Then terribly 'rose Satan and darkened Earth afar | F |
| Till he came on cunning Dives where the money changers are | F |
| And he saw men pledge their gear | F |
| For the bold that buys the spear | F |
| And the helmet and the habergeon of war | F |
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| Yea to Dives came the Persian and the Syrian and the Mede | L |
| And their hearts were nothing altered nor their cunning nor their greed | L |
| And they pledged their flocks and farms | M |
| For the King compelling arms | M |
| And Dives lent according to their need | L |
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| Then Satan said to Dives 'Return again with me | E |
| 'Who hast broken His Commandment in the day He set thee free | E |
| 'Who grindest for thy greed | L |
| 'Man's belly pinch and need | L |
| 'And the blood of Man to filthy usury ' | - |
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| Then softly answered Dives where the money changers sit | L |
| 'My Refuge is Our Master O My Master in the Pit | L |
| 'But behold all Earth is laid | L |
| 'In the Peace which I have made | L |
| 'And behold I wait on thee to trouble it ' | - |
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| Then angrily turned Satan and about the Seas he fled | L |
| To shake the new sown peoples with insult doubt and dread | L |
| But for all the sleight he used | L |
| There was never squadron loosed | L |
| And the brands he flung flew dying and fell dead | L |
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| But to Dives came Atlantis and the Captains of the West | L |
| And their hates were nothing weakened nor their angers unrest | L |
| And they pawned their utmost trade | L |
| For the dry decreeing blade | L |
| And Dives lent and took of them their best | L |
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| Then Satan said to Dives 'Declare thou by The Name | N |
| 'The secret of thy subtlety that turneth mine to shame | N |
| 'It is knowvn through all the Hells | M |
| 'How my peoples mocked my spells | M |
| 'And my faithless Kings denied me ere I came ' | - |
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| Then answvered cunning Dives 'Do not gold and hate abide | L |
| 'At the heart of every Magic yea and senseless fear beside | L |
| 'With gold and fear and hate | L |
| 'I have harnessed state to state | L |
| 'And by hate and fear and gold their hates are tied | L |
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| 'For hate men seek a weapon for fear they seek a shield | L |
| 'Keener blades and broader targes than their frantic neighbours wield | L |
| 'For gold I arm their hands | M |
| 'And for gold I buy their lands | M |
| 'And for gold I sell their enemies the yield | L |
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| 'Their nearest foes may purchase or their furthest friends may lease | M |
| 'One by one from Ancient Accad to the Islands of the Seas | M |
| 'And their covenants they make | O |
| 'For the naked iron's sake | O |
| 'But I I trap them armoured into peace | M |
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| 'The flocks that Egypt pledged me to Assyria I drave | P |
| 'And Pharaoh hath the increase of the herds that Sargon gave | P |
| 'Not for Ashdod overthrown | H |
| 'Will the Kings destroy their own | H |
| 'Or their peoples wake the strife they feign to brave | P |
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| 'Is not Carchemish like Calno For the steeds of their desire | F |
| 'They have sold me seven harvests that I sell to Crowning Tyre | F |
| 'And the Tyrian sweeps the plains | M |
| 'With a thousand hired wains | M |
| 'And the Cities keep the peace and share the hire | F |
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| 'Hast thou seen the pride of Moab For the swords about his path | Q |
| 'His bond is to Philistia in half of all he hath | Q |
| 'And he dare not draw the sword | L |
| 'Till Gaza give the word | L |
| 'And he show release from Askalon and Gath | Q |
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| 'Wilt thou call again thy peoples wilt thou craze anew thy Kings | M |
| 'Lo my lightnings pass before thee and their whistling servant brings | M |
| 'Ere the drowsy street hath stirred | L |
| 'Every masked and midnight word | L |
| 'And the nations break their fast upon these things | M |
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| 'So I make a jest of Wonder and a mock of Time and Space | M |
| 'The roofless Seas an hostel and the Earth a market place | M |
| 'Where the anxious traders know | K |
| 'Each is surety for his foe | K |
| 'And none may thrive without his fellows' grace | M |
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| 'Now this is all my subtlety and this is all my Wit | L |
| 'God give thee good enlightenment My Master in the Pit | L |
| 'But behold all Earth is laid | L |
| 'In the Peace which I have made | L |
| 'And behold I wait on thee to trouble it ' | - |
Rudyard Kipling
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