A Pict Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC DEDEFGHI JKJKKLKL MNMOPQPQ R| Rome never looks where she treads | A |
| Always her heavy hooves fall | B |
| On our stomachs our hearts or our heads | A |
| And Rome never heeds when we bawl | B |
| Her sentries pass on that is all | B |
| And we gather behind them in hordes | C |
| And plot to reconquer the Wall | B |
| With only our tongues for our swords | C |
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| We are the Little Folk we | D |
| Too little to love or to hate | E |
| Leave us alone and you'll see | D |
| How we can drag down the State | E |
| We are the worm in the wood | F |
| We are the rot at the root | G |
| We are the taint in the blood | H |
| We are the thorn in the foot | I |
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| Mistletoe killing an oak | J |
| Rats gnawing cables in two | K |
| Moths making holes in a cloak | J |
| How they must love what they do | K |
| Yes and we Little Folk too | K |
| We are busy as they | L |
| Working our works out of view | K |
| Watch and you'll see it some day | L |
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| No indeed We are not strong | M |
| But we know Peoples that are | N |
| Yes and we'll guide them along | M |
| To smash and destroy you in War | O |
| We shall be slaves just the same | P |
| Yes we have always been slaves | Q |
| But you you will die of the shame | P |
| And then we shall dance on your graves | Q |
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| We are the Little Folk we etc | R |
Rudyard Kipling
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