The Rabbi's Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCBDBD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL EMEMNONO| Samuel XIV | A |
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| If Thought can reach to Heaven | B |
| On Heaven let it dwell | C |
| For fear the Thought be given | B |
| Like power to reach to Hell | C |
| For fear the desolation | B |
| And darkness of thy mind | D |
| Perplex an habitation | B |
| Which thou hast left behind | D |
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| Let nothing linger after | E |
| No whimpering gost remain | F |
| In wall or beam or rafter | E |
| Of any hate or pain | F |
| Cleans and call home thy spirit | G |
| Deny her leave to cast | H |
| On aught thy heirs inherit | G |
| The shadow of her past | H |
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| For think in all thy sadness | I |
| What road our griefs may take | J |
| Whose brain reflect our madness | I |
| Or whom our terrors shake | J |
| For think lest any languish | K |
| By cause of thy distress | L |
| The arrows of our anguish | K |
| Fly farther than we guess | L |
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| Our lives our tears as water | E |
| Are spilled upon the ground | M |
| God giveth no man quarter | E |
| Yet God a means hath found | M |
| Though Faith and Hope have vanished | N |
| And even Love grows dim | O |
| A means whereby His banished | N |
| Be not expelled from Him | O |
Rudyard Kipling
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