A Counting-out Song Poem Rhyme Scheme

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What is the song the children sing	A
When doorway lilacs bloom in Spring	A
And the Schools are loosed and the games are played	B
That were deadly earnest when Earth was made	B
Hear them chattering shrill and hard	C
After dinner time out in the yard	C
As the sides are chosen and all submit	D
To the chance of the lot that shall make them quot It quot	D
Singing quot Eenee Meenee Mainee Mo	E
Catch a nigger by the toe	E
If he hollers let him go	E
Eenee Meenee Mainee Mo	E
You are It quot	E
	-
Eenee Meenee Mainee and Mo	E
Were the First Big Four of the Long Ago	E
When the Pole of the Earth sloped thirty degrees	F
And Central Europe began to freeze	F
And they needed Ambassadors staunch and stark	G
To steady the Tribes in the gathering dark	G
But the frost was fierce and flesh was frail	H
So they launched a Magic that could not fail	H
Singing quot Eenee Meenee Mainee Mo	E
Hear the wolves across the snow	E
Some one has to kill 'em so	E
Eenee Meenee Mainee Mo	E
Make you It quot	E
	-
Slow ly the Glacial Epoch passed	E
Central Europe thawed out at last	E
And under the slush of the melting snows	I
The first dim shapes of the Nations rose	I
Rome Britannia Belgium Gaul	J
Flood and avalanche fathered them all	J
And the First Big Four as they watched the mess	K
Pitied Man in his helplessness	L
Singing quot Eenee Meenee Mainee Mo	E
Trouble starts When Nations grow	E
Some one has to stop it so	E
Eenee Meenee Mainee Mo	E
Make you It quot	E
	-
Thus it happened but none can tell	M
What was the Power behind the spell	M
Fear or Duty or Pride or Faith	N
That sent men shuddering out to death	O
To cold and watching and worse than these	F
Work more work when they looked for ease	F
To the days discomfort the nights despair	P
In the hope of a prize that they never could share	P
Singing quot Eenee Meenee Mainee Mo	E
Man is born to Toil and Woe	E
One will cure another so	E
Eenee Meenee Mainee Mo	E
Make you It quot	E
	-
Once and again as the Ice went North	Q
The grass crept up to the Firth of Forth	Q
Once and again as the Ice came South	R
The glaciers ground over Lossiemouth	R
But grass or glacier cold or hot	E
The men went out who would rather not	E
And fought with the Tiger the Pig and the Ape	S
To hammer the world into decent shape	S
Singing quot Eenee Meenee Mainee Mo	E
What's the use of doing so	E
Ask the Gods for we don't know	E
But Eenee Meenee Mainee Mo	E
Make us It quot	E
	-
Nothing is left of that terrible rune	T
But a tag of gibberish tacked to a tune	T
That ends the waiting and settles the claims	U
Of children arguing over their games	U
For never yet has a boy been found	E
To shirk his turn when the turn came round	E
Nor even a girl has been known to say	V
quot If you laugh at me I shan't play quot	E
For quot Eenee Meenee Mainee Mo	E
Don't you let the grown ups know	E
You may hate it ever so	E
But if you're chose you're bound to go	E
When Eenee Meenee Mainee Mo	E
Make you It quot	E

Rudyard Kipling

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