The Two Cousins Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEC FFGHIG JJKLLK| Valour and Innocence | A |
| Have latterly gone hence | B |
| To certain death by certain shame attended | C |
| Envy ah even to tears | D |
| The fortune of their years | E |
| Which though so few yet so divinely ended | C |
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| Scarce had they lifted up | F |
| Life's full and fiery cup | F |
| Than they had set it down untouched before them | G |
| Before their day arose | H |
| They beckoned it to close | I |
| Close in destruction and confusion o'er them | G |
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| They did not stay to ask | J |
| What prize should crown their task | J |
| Well sure that prize was such as no man strives for | K |
| But passed into eclipse | L |
| Her kiss upon their lips | L |
| Even Belphoebe's whom they gave their lives for | K |
Rudyard Kipling
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