The Waster Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEEG HEHEEBIBEG JKJKLEMEEG| From the date that the doors of his prep school close | A |
| On the lonely little son | B |
| He is taught by precept insult and blows | C |
| The Things that Are Never Done | B |
| Year after year without favour or fear | D |
| From seven to twenty two | E |
| His keepers insist he shall learn the list | F |
| Of the things no fellow can do | E |
| They are not so strict with the average Pict | E |
| And it isn't set to etc | G |
| - | |
| For this and not for the profit it brings | H |
| Or the good of his fellow kind | E |
| He is and suffers unspeakable things | H |
| In body and soul and mind | E |
| But the net result of that Primitive Cult | E |
| Whatever else may be won | B |
| Is definite knowledge ere leaving College | I |
| Of the Things that Are Never Done | B |
| An interdict which is strange to the Pict | E |
| And was never revealed to etc | G |
| - | |
| Slack by training and slow by birth | J |
| Only quick to despise | K |
| Largely assessing his neighbour's worth | J |
| By the hue of his socks or ties | K |
| A loafer in grain his foes maintain | L |
| And how shall we combat their view | E |
| When atop of his natural sloth he holds | M |
| There are Things no Fellow can do | E |
| Which is why he is licked from the first by the Pict | E |
| And left at the post by etc | G |
Rudyard Kipling
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