The Pro-consuls Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDDEFEG HIHJKK LMLMNN OPOPQR STSTUU UUUUVL WUWUXX YZYZA2B2 C2UUU| The overfaithful sword returns the user | A |
| His heart's desire at price of his heart's blood | B |
| The clamour of the arrogant accuser | A |
| Wastes that one hour we needed to make good | C |
| This was foretold of old at our outgoing | D |
| This we accepted who have squandered knowing | D |
| The strength and glory of our reputations | E |
| At the day's need as it were dross to guard | F |
| The tender and new dedicate foundations | E |
| Against the sea we fear not man's award | G |
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| They that dig foundations deep | H |
| Fit for realms to rise upon | I |
| Little honour do they reap | H |
| Of their generation | J |
| Any more than mountains gain | K |
| Stature till we reach the plain | K |
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| With noveil before their face | L |
| Such as shroud or sceptre lend | M |
| Daily in the market place | L |
| Of one height to foe and friend | M |
| They must cheapen self to find | N |
| Ends uncheapened for mankind | N |
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| Through the night when hirelings rest | O |
| Sleepless they arise alone | P |
| The unsleeping arch to test | O |
| And the o'er trusted corner stone | P |
| 'Gainst the need they know that lies | Q |
| Hid behind the centuries | R |
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| Not by lust of praise or show | S |
| Not by Peace herself betrayed | T |
| Peace herself must they forego | S |
| Till that peace be fitly made | T |
| And in single strength uphold | U |
| Wearier hands and hearts acold | U |
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| On the stage their act hath framed | U |
| For thy sports O Liberty | U |
| Doubted are they and defamed | U |
| By the tongues their act set free | U |
| While they quicken tend and raise | V |
| Power that must their power displace | L |
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| Lesser men feign greater goals | W |
| Failing whereof they may sit | U |
| Scholarly to judge the souls | W |
| That go down into the pit | U |
| And despite its certain clay | X |
| Heave a new world towards the day | X |
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| These at labour make no sign | Y |
| More than planets tides or years | Z |
| Which discover God's design | Y |
| Not our hopes and not our fears | Z |
| Nor in aught they gain or lose | A2 |
| Seek a triumph or excuse | B2 |
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| For so the Ark be borne to Zion who | C2 |
| Heeds how they perished or were paid that bore it | U |
| For so the Shrine abide what shame what pride | U |
| If we the priests were bound or crowned before it | U |
Rudyard Kipling
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