If by Ruby Kipling, Poetry ysis?

This is a poem which establishes an ideal of what manhood should be, written from the perspective of the Late Victorian-Edwardian world over which Kipling presided like a colossus. It lays out all of the virtues of the ideal Englishman, from persistent resolve, to the stiff upper lip in the face of adversity. That man is defined as much by his actions as ideals, and has found the perfect balance of the two. He treats king and commoner the same and values truth above all else, even when it becomes the bitter pill he must himself swallow. This is also a very rhythmic poem, written in cross-rhymed lines with a persistent 11-10-11-10-... beat that is modulated with exceptional fidelity and intensity. It is a work of genius!