The Servant When He Reigneth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCABEBAFBFBBEB BGFGHBBB HIHIAAEA FBFBJKEK| For three things the earth is disquieted and for four which it cannot bear For a servant when he reigneth and a fool when he is filled with meat for an odious woman when she is married and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress Prov XXX | A |
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| Three things make earth unquiet | B |
| And four she cannot brook | C |
| The godly Agur counted them | D |
| And put them in a book | C |
| Those Four Tremendous Curses | A |
| With which mankind is cursed | B |
| But a Servant when He Reigneth | E |
| Old Agur entered first | B |
| An Handmaid that is Mistress | A |
| We need not call upon | F |
| A Fool when he is full of Meat | B |
| Will fall asleep anon | F |
| An Odious Woman Married | B |
| May bear a babe and mend | B |
| But a Servant when He Reigneth | E |
| Is Confusion to the end | B |
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| His feet are swift to tumult | B |
| His hands are slow to toil | G |
| His ears are deaf to reason | F |
| His lips are loud in broil | G |
| He knows no use for power | H |
| Except to show his might | B |
| He gives no heed to judgment | B |
| Unless it prove him right | B |
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| Because he served a master | H |
| Before his Kingship came | I |
| And hid in all disaster | H |
| Behind his master's name | I |
| So when his Folly opens | A |
| The unnecessary hells | A |
| A Servant when He Reigneth | E |
| Throws the blame on some one else | A |
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| His vows are lightly spoken | F |
| His faith is hard to bind | B |
| His trust is easy boken | F |
| He fears his fellow kind | B |
| The nearest mob will move him | J |
| To break the pledge he gave | K |
| Oh a Servant when he Reigneth | E |
| Is more than ever slave | K |
Rudyard Kipling
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