To The Unknown Goddess Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC DD EE FF GG HH EE| Will you conquer my heart with your beauty my sould going out from afar | A |
| Shall I fall to your hand as a victim of crafty and cautions shikar | A |
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| Have I met you and passed you already unknowing unthinking and blind | B |
| Shall I meet you next session at Simla O sweetest and best of your kind | B |
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| Does the P and O bear you to meward or clad in short frocks in the West | C |
| Are you growing the charms that shall capture and torture the heart in my breast | C |
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| Will you stay in the Plains till September my passion as warm as the day | D |
| Will you bring me to book on the Mountains or where the thermantidotes play | D |
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| When the light of your eyes shall make pallid the mean lesser lights I pursue | E |
| And the charm of your presence shall lure me from love of the gay thirteen two | E |
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| When the peg and the pig skin shall please not when I buy me Calcutta build clothes | F |
| When I quit the Delight of Wild Asses foreswearing the swearing of oaths | F |
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| As a deer to the hand of the hunter when I turn 'mid the gibes of my friends | G |
| When the days of my freedom are numbered and the life of the bachelor ends | G |
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| Ah Goddess child spinster or widow as of old on Mars Hill whey they raised | H |
| To the God that they knew not an altar so I a young Pagan have praised | H |
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| The Goddess I know not nor worship yet if half that men tell me be true | E |
| You will come in the future and therefore these verses are written to you | E |
Rudyard Kipling
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