• "Recessional" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling. It was composed for the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria, in 1897. Description.
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  • A recessional is a song that is played at the end of a religious service. The poem takes on this format and is quite reminiscent of a traditional English hymn.
  • Recessional - a poem by Rudyard Kipling. A poem can stir all of the senses, and the subject matter of a poem can range from being funny to being sad.
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  • Recessional. (After Queen Victoria’s Jubilee). God of our fathers, known of old, Lord of our far-flung battle-line, Beneath ... Choose another poem. Learn more.
  • 7Poetry For Every Occasion7. ... 5 stanzas of six lines each, composed of rhyming couplets. One of the Kiplings more enigmatic and cerebral poems.
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