To The Companions Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG FFFF GHGH IJIF| How comes it that at even tide | A |
| When level beams should show most truth | B |
| Man failing takes unfailing pride | A |
| In memories of his frolic youth | B |
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| Venus and Liber fill their hour | C |
| The games engage the law courts prove | D |
| Till hardened life breeds love of power | C |
| Or Avarice Age's final love | E |
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| Yet at the end these comfort not | F |
| Nor any triumph Fate decrees | G |
| Compared with glorious unforgot | F |
| Ten innocent enormities | G |
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| Of frontless days before the beard | F |
| When instant on the casual jest | F |
| The God Himself of Mirth appeared | F |
| And snatched us to His heaving breast | F |
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| And we not caring who He was | G |
| But certain He would come again | H |
| Accepted all He brought to pass | G |
| As Gods accept the lives of men | H |
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| Then He withdrew from sight and speech | I |
| Nor left a shrine How comes it now | J |
| While Charon's keel grates on the beach | I |
| He calls so clear quot Rememberest thou quot | F |
Rudyard Kipling
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