The Reformers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFEF GHGH IJKJ LMLN OPOP QBQM RSRT UVUV WXWX BYBY| A | |
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| Not in the camp his victory lies | B |
| Or triumph in the market place | C |
| Who is his Nation's sacrifice | D |
| To turn the judgement from his race | C |
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| Happy is he who bred and taught | E |
| By sleek sufficing Circumstance | F |
| Whose Gospel was the apparelled thought | E |
| Whose Gods were Luxury and Chance | F |
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| Seese on the threshold of his days | G |
| The old life shrivel like a scroll | H |
| And to unheralded dismays | G |
| Submits his body and his soul | H |
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| The fatted shows wherein he stood | I |
| Foregoing and the idiot pride | J |
| That he may prove with his own blood | K |
| All that his easy sires denied | J |
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| Ultimate issues primal springs | L |
| Demands abasements penalties | M |
| The imperishable plinth of things | L |
| Seen and unseen that touch our peace | N |
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| For though ensnaring ritual dim | O |
| His vision through the after years | P |
| Yet virtue shall go out of him | O |
| Example profiting his peers | P |
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| With great things charged he shall not hold | Q |
| Aloof till great occasion rise | B |
| But serve full harnessed as of old | Q |
| The Days that are the Destinies | M |
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| He shall forswear and put away | R |
| The idols of his sheltered house | S |
| And to Necessity shall pay | R |
| Unflinching tribute of his vows | T |
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| He shall not plead another's act | U |
| Nor bind him in another's oath | V |
| To weigh the Word above the Fact | U |
| Or make or take excuse for sloth | V |
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| The yoke he bore shall press him still | W |
| And long ingrained effort goad | X |
| To find to fasion and fulfil | W |
| The cleaner life the sterner code | X |
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| Not in the camp his victory lies | B |
| The world unheeding his return | Y |
| Shall see it in his children's eyes | B |
| And from his grandson's lips shall learn | Y |
Rudyard Kipling
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