To The True Romance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHDHIJAJ KLMLNDBD DBOBPQRQ SDTBUVWV XYZYA2RB2R C2D2E2D2F2G2H2I2 J2B2K2B2L2NL2N M2DCBN2L2JL2 DJ2L2J2JO2J2O2 ABJB N2JP2JL2DL2Q2Thy face is far from this our war | A |
Our call and counter cry | B |
I shall not find Thee quick and kind | C |
Nor know Thee till I die | B |
Enough for me in dreams to see | D |
And touch Thy garments' hem | E |
Thy feet have trod so near to God | F |
I may not follow them | E |
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Through wantonness if men profess | G |
They weary of Thy parts | H |
E'en let them die at blasphemy | D |
And perish with their arts | H |
But we that love but we that prove | I |
Thine excellence august | J |
While we adore discover more | A |
Thee perfect wise and just | J |
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Since spoken word Man's Spirit stirred | K |
Beyond his belly need | L |
What is is Thine of fair design | M |
In thought and craft and deed | L |
Each stroke aright of toil and fight | N |
That was and that shall be | D |
And hope too high wherefore we die | B |
Has birth and worth in Thee | D |
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Who holds by Thee hath Heaven in fee | D |
To gild his dross thereby | B |
And knowledge sure that he endure | O |
A child until he die | B |
For to make plain that man's disdain | P |
Is but new Beauty's birth | Q |
For to possess in loneliness | R |
The joy of all the earth | Q |
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As Thou didst teach all lovers speech | S |
And Life all mystery | D |
So shalt Thou rule by every school | T |
Till love and longing die | B |
Who wast or yet the Lights were set | U |
A whisper in the Void | V |
Who shalt be sung through planets young | W |
When this is clean destroyed | V |
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Beyond the bounds our staring rounds | X |
Across the pressing dark | Y |
The children wise of outer skies | Z |
Look hitherward and mark | Y |
A light that shifts a glare that drifts | A2 |
Rekindling thus and thus | R |
Not all forlorn for Thou hast borne | B2 |
Strange tales to them of us | R |
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Time hath no tide but must abide | C2 |
The servant of Thy will | D2 |
Tide hath no time for to Thy rhyme | E2 |
The ranging stars stand still | D2 |
Regent of spheres that lock our fears | F2 |
Our hopes invisible | G2 |
Oh 'twas certes at Thy decrees | H2 |
We fashioned Heaven and Hell | I2 |
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Pure Wisdom hath no certain path | J2 |
That lacks thy morning eyne | B2 |
And captains bold by Thee controlled | K2 |
Most like to Gods design | B2 |
Thou art the Voice to kingly boys | L2 |
To lift them through the fight | N |
And Comfortress of Unsuccess | L2 |
To give the dead good night | N |
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A veil to draw 'twixt God His Law | M2 |
And Man's infirmity | D |
A shadow kind to dumb and blind | C |
The shambles where we die | B |
A rule to trick th' arithmetic | N2 |
Too base of leaguing odds | L2 |
The spur of trust the curb of lust | J |
Thou handmaid of the Gods | L2 |
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O Charity all patiently | D |
Abiding wrack and scaith | J2 |
O Faith that meets ten thousand cheats | L2 |
Yet drops no jot of faith | J2 |
Devil and brute Thou dost transmute | J |
To higher lordlier show | O2 |
Who art in sooth that lovely Truth | J2 |
The careless angels know | O2 |
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Thy face is far from this our war | A |
Our call and counter cry | B |
I may not find Thee quick and kind | J |
Nor know Thee till I die | B |
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Yet may I look with heart unshook | N2 |
On blow brought home or missed | J |
Yet may I hear with equal ear | P2 |
The clarions down the List | J |
Yet set my lance above mischance | L2 |
And ride the barriere | D |
Oh hit or miss how little 'tis | L2 |
My Lady is not there | Q2 |
Rudyard Kipling
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