The Power Of The Dog Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEECC FFGGCC HHIJCC AAKKLLMMCC| There is sorrow enough in the natural way | A |
| From men and women to fill our day | A |
| And when we are certain of sorrow in store | B |
| Why do we always arrange for more | B |
| Brothers and Sisters I bid you beware | C |
| Of giving your heart to a dog to tear | C |
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| Buy a pup and your money will buy | D |
| Love unflinching that cannot lie | D |
| Perfect passion and worship fed | E |
| By a kick in the ribs or a pat on the head | E |
| Nevertheless it is hardly fair | C |
| To risk your heart for a dog to tear | C |
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| When the fourteen years which Nature permits | F |
| Are closing in asthma or tumour or fits | F |
| And the vet's unspoken prescription runs | G |
| To lethal chambers or loaded guns | G |
| Then you will find it's your own affair | C |
| But you've given your heart for a dog to tear | C |
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| When the body that lived at your single will | H |
| With its whimper of welcome is stilled how still | H |
| When the spirit that answered your every mood | I |
| Is gone wherever it goes for good | J |
| You will discover how much you care | C |
| And will give your heart for the dog to tear | C |
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| We've sorrow enough in the natural way | A |
| When it comes to burying Christian clay | A |
| Our loves are not given but only lent | K |
| At compound interest of cent per cent | K |
| Though it is not always the case I believe | L |
| That the longer we've kept 'em the more do we grieve | L |
| For when debts are payable right or wrong | M |
| A short time loan is as bad as a long | M |
| So why in Heaven before we are there | C |
| Should we give our hearts to a dog to tear | C |
Rudyard Kipling
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Denise Webb : So beautifully and eloquently put
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