The Vineyard Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHI JJAA KLKL| At the eleventh hour he came | A |
| But his wages were the same | A |
| As ours who all day long had trod | B |
| The wine press of the Wrath of God | B |
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| When he shouldered through the lines | C |
| Of our cropped and mangled vines | C |
| His unjaded eye could scan | D |
| How each hour had marked its man | D |
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| Children of the morning tide | E |
| With the hosts of noon died | E |
| And our noon contingents lay | F |
| Dead with twilight's spent array | F |
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| Since his back had felt no load | G |
| Virtue still in him abode | G |
| So he swiftly made his own | H |
| Those last spoils we had not won | I |
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| We went home delivered thence | J |
| Grudging him no recompense | J |
| Till he portioned praise of blame | A |
| To our works before he came | A |
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| Till he showed us for our good | K |
| Deaf to mirth and blind to scorn | L |
| How we might have best withstood | K |
| Burdens that he had not born | L |
Rudyard Kipling
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