Doctors
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
Man dies too soon, beside his works half-planned.
His days are counted and reprieve is vain:
Who shall entreat with Death to stay his hand;
Or cloke the shameful nakedness of pain?
Send here the bold, the seekers of the way--
The passionless, the unshakeable of soul,
Who serve the inmost mysteries of man's clay,
And ask no more than leave to make them whole.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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Scheme | ABAB CDCD |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 361 |
Words | 67 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
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