What The People Said Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEFDG HGHGIJIJKLKG MNMMNGGGGO GPGPQRQG HGSTSTHG| By the well where the bullocks go | A |
| Silent and blind and slow | A |
| By the field where the young corn dies | B |
| In the face of the sultry skies | B |
| They have heard as the dull Earth hears | C |
| The voice of the wind of an hour | D |
| The sound of the Great Queen's voice | E |
| quot My God hath given me years | F |
| Hath granted dominion and power | D |
| And I bid you O Land rejoice quot | G |
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| And the ploughman settles the share | H |
| More deep in the grudging clod | G |
| For he saith quot The wheat is my care | H |
| And the rest is the will of God | G |
| He sent the Mahratta spear | I |
| As He sendeth the rain | J |
| And the Mlech in the fated year | I |
| Broke the spear in twain | J |
| And was broken in turn Who knows | K |
| How our Lords make strife | L |
| It is good that the young wheat grows | K |
| For the bread is Life quot | G |
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| Then far and near as the twilight drew | M |
| Hissed up to the scornful dark | N |
| Great serpents blazing of red and blue | M |
| That rose and faded and rose anew | M |
| That the Land might wonder and mark | N |
| quot To day is a day of days quot they said | G |
| quot Make merry O People all quot | G |
| And the Ploughman listened and bowed his head | G |
| quot To day and to morrow God's will quot he said | G |
| As he trimmed the lamps on the wall | O |
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| quot He sendeth us years that are good | G |
| As He sendeth the dearth | P |
| He giveth to each man his food | G |
| Or Her food to the Earth | P |
| Our Kings and our Queens are afar | Q |
| On their peoples be peace | R |
| God bringeth the rain to the Bar | Q |
| That our cattle increase quot | G |
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| And the Ploughman settled the share | H |
| More deep in the sun dried clod | G |
| quot Mogul Mahratta and Mlech from the North | S |
| And White Queen over the Seas | T |
| God raiseth them up and driveth them forth | S |
| As the dust of the ploughshare flies in the breeze | T |
| But the wheat and the cattle are all my care | H |
| And the rest is the will of God quot | G |
Rudyard Kipling
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