The Song Of The Old Guard Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDEDE FGFGHEHE IDIDDEDE ADADDEDE JKJKDEDE LMLMNENE| Know this my brethren Heaven is clear | A |
| And all the clouds are gone | B |
| The Proper Sort shall flourish now | C |
| Good times are coming on quot | D |
| The evil that was threatened late | D |
| To all of our degree | E |
| Hath passed in discord and debate | D |
| And Hey then up go we | E |
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| A common people strove in vain | F |
| To shame us unto toil | G |
| But they are spent and we remain | F |
| And we shall share the spoil | G |
| According to our several needs | H |
| As Beauty shall decree | E |
| As Age ordains or Birth concedes | H |
| And Hey then up go we | E |
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| And they that with accursed zeal | I |
| Our Service would amend | D |
| Shall own the odds and come to heel | I |
| Ere worse befall their end | D |
| For though no naked word be wrote | D |
| Yet plainly shall they see | E |
| What pinneth Orders on their coat | D |
| And Hey then up go we | E |
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| Our doorways that in time of fear | A |
| We opened overwide | D |
| Shall softly close from year to year | A |
| Till all be purified | D |
| For though no fluttering fan be heard | D |
| Nor chaff be seen to flee | E |
| The Lord shall winnow the Lord's Preferred | D |
| And Hey then up go we | E |
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| Our altars which the heathen brake | J |
| Shall rankly smoke anew | K |
| And anise mint and cummin take | J |
| Their dread and sovereign due | K |
| Whereby the buttons of our trade | D |
| Shall soon restored be | E |
| With curious work in gilt and braid | D |
| And Hey then up go we | E |
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| Then come my brethren and prepare | L |
| The candlesticks and bells | M |
| The scarlet brass and badger's hair | L |
| Wherein our Honour dwells | M |
| And straitly fence and strictly keep | N |
| The Ark's integrity | E |
| Till Armageddon break our sleep | N |
| And Hey then go we | E |
Rudyard Kipling
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