Things And The Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDCDDEDF CDCFDEDF CDCDDEDF CDCDDEDF CDCDDEDE| In Memoriam Joseph Chamberlain | A |
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| quot And Joseph dreamed a dream and he told it his brethren and they hated him yet the more quot Genesis xxxvii | B |
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| Oh ye who hold the written clue | C |
| To all save all unwritten things | D |
| And half a league behind pursue | C |
| The accomplished Fact with flouts and flings | D |
| Look To your knee your baby brings | D |
| The oldest tale since Earth began | E |
| The answer to your worryings | D |
| quot Once on a time there was a Man quot | F |
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| He single handed met and slew | C |
| Magicians Armies Ogres Kings | D |
| He lonely 'mid his doubting crew | C |
| quot In all the loneliness of wings quot | F |
| He fed the flame he filled the springs | D |
| He locked the ranks he launched the van | E |
| Straight at the grinning Teeth of Things | D |
| quot Once on a time there was a Man quot | F |
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| The peace of shocked Foundations flew | C |
| Before his ribald questionings | D |
| He broke the Oracles in two | C |
| And bared the paltry wires and strings | D |
| He headed desert wanderings | D |
| He led his soul his cause his clan | E |
| A little from the ruck of Things | D |
| quot Once on a time there was a Man quot | F |
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| Thrones Powers Dominions block the view | C |
| With episodes and underlings | D |
| The meek historian deems them true | C |
| Nor heeds the song that Clio sings | D |
| The simple central truth that stings | D |
| The mob to boo the priest to ban | E |
| Things never yet created things | D |
| quot Once on a time there was a Man quot | F |
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| A bolt is fallen from the blue | C |
| A wakened realm full circle swings | D |
| Where Dothan's dreamer dreams anew | C |
| Of vast and farborne harvestings | D |
| And unto him an Empire clings | D |
| That grips the purpose of his plan | E |
| My Lords how think you of these things | D |
| Once in our time is there a Man | E |
Rudyard Kipling
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