A General Summary Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDB EEFGGF HHIJJIKKK LLLMNNNM OOPOOP| We are very slightly changed | A |
| From the semi apes who ranged | A |
| India's Prehistoric clay | B |
| He that drew the longest bow | C |
| Ran his brother down you know | D |
| As we run men down to day | B |
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| quot Dowb quot the first of all his race | E |
| Met the Mammoth face to face | E |
| On the lake or in the cave | F |
| Stole the steadiest canoe | G |
| Ate the quarry others slew | G |
| Died and took the finest grave | F |
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| When they scratched the reindeer bone | H |
| Some one made the sketch his own | H |
| Filched it from the artist then | I |
| Even in those early days | J |
| Won a simple Viceroy's praise | J |
| Through the toil of other men | I |
| Ere they hewed the Sphinx's visage | K |
| Favouritism governed kissage | K |
| Even as it does in this age | K |
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| Who shall doubt quot the secret hid | L |
| Under Cheops' pyramid quot | L |
| Was that the contractor did | L |
| Cheops out of several millions | M |
| Or that Joseph's sudden rise | N |
| To comptroller of Supplies | N |
| Was a fraud of monstrous size | N |
| On King Pharaoh's swart Civilians | M |
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| Thus the artless songs I sing | O |
| Do not deal with anything | O |
| New or never said before | P |
| As it was in the beginning | O |
| Is to day official sinning | O |
| And shall be for evermore | P |
Rudyard Kipling
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