An Old Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGG BHIHJKLJGG MNONPLHLGG HQMQRHHHGG SHEHTHUHGG JVWVJHHHGG XOYOMAZAGG| So long as 'neath the Kalka hills | A |
| The tonga horn shall ring | B |
| So long as down the Solon dip | C |
| The hard held ponies swing | B |
| So long as Tara Devi sees | D |
| The lights of Simla town | E |
| So long as Pleasure calls us up | F |
| Or Duty drivese us down | E |
| If you love me as I love you | G |
| What pair so happy as we two | G |
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| So long as Aces take the King | B |
| Or backers take the bet | H |
| So long as debt leads men to wed | I |
| Or marriage leads to debt | H |
| So long as little luncheons Love | J |
| And scandal hold their vogue | K |
| While there is sport at Annandale | L |
| Or whisky at Jutogh | J |
| If you love me as I love you | G |
| What knife can cut our love in two | G |
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| So long as down the rocking floor | M |
| The raving polka spins | N |
| So long as Kitchen Lancers spur | O |
| The maddened violins | N |
| So long as through the whirling smoke | P |
| We hear the oft told tale | L |
| quot Twelve hundred in the Lotteries quot | H |
| And Whatshername for sale | L |
| If you love me as I love you | G |
| We'll play the game and win it too | G |
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| So long as Lust or Lucre tempt | H |
| Straight riders from the course | Q |
| So long as with each drink we pour | M |
| Black brewage of Remorse | Q |
| So long as those unloaded guns | R |
| We keep beside the bed | H |
| Blow off by obvious accident | H |
| The lucky owner's head | H |
| If you love me as I love you | G |
| What can Life kill of Death undo | G |
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| So long as Death 'twixt dance and dance | S |
| Chills best and bravest blood | H |
| And drops the reckless rider down | E |
| The rotten rain soaked khud | H |
| So long as rumours from the North | T |
| Make loving wives afraid | H |
| So long as Burma takes the boy | U |
| Or typhoid kills the maid | H |
| If you love me as I love you | G |
| What knife can cut our love in two | G |
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| By all that lights our daily life | J |
| Or works our lifelong woe | V |
| From Boileaugunge to Simla Downs | W |
| And those grim glades below | V |
| Where heedless of the flying hoof | J |
| And clamour overhead | H |
| Sleep with the grey langur for guard | H |
| Our very scornful Dead | H |
| If you love me as I love you | G |
| All Earth is servant to us two | G |
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| By Docket Billetdoux and File | X |
| By Mountain Cliff and Fir | O |
| By Fan and Sword and Office box | Y |
| By Corset Plume and Spur | O |
| By Riot Revel Waltz and War | M |
| By Women Work and Bills | A |
| By all the life that fizzes in | Z |
| The everlasting Hills | A |
| If you love me as I love you | G |
| What pair so happy as we two | G |
Rudyard Kipling
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