Arithmetic On The Frontier Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDE EFEEDD GHGHEE EBEBII JDJDEE KGKGEF| A great and glorious thing it is | A |
| To learn for seven years or so | B |
| The Lord knows what of that and this | C |
| Ere reckoned fit to face the foe | B |
| The flying bullet down the Pass | D |
| That whistles clear quot All flesh is grass quot | E |
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| Three hundred pounds per annum spent | E |
| On making brain and body meeter | F |
| For all the murderous intent | E |
| Comprised in quot villanous saltpetre quot | E |
| And after ask the Yusufzaies | D |
| What comes of all our 'ologies | D |
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| A scrimmage in a Border Station | G |
| A canter down some dark defile | H |
| Two thousand pounds of education | G |
| Drops to a ten rupee jezail | H |
| The Crammer's boast the Squadron's pride | E |
| Shot like a rabbit in a ride | E |
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| No proposition Euclid wrote | E |
| No formulae the text books know | B |
| Will turn the bullet from your coat | E |
| Or ward the tulwar's downward blow | B |
| Strike hard who cares shoot straight who can | I |
| The odds are on the cheaper man | I |
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| One sword knot stolen from the camp | J |
| Will pay for all the school expenses | D |
| Of any Kurrum Valley scamp | J |
| Who knows no word of moods and tenses | D |
| But being blessed with perfect sight | E |
| Picks off our messmates left and right | E |
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| With home bred hordes the hillsides teem | K |
| The troop ships bring us one by one | G |
| At vast expense of time and steam | K |
| To slay Afridis where they run | G |
| The quot captives of our bow and spear quot | E |
| Are cheap alas as we are dear | F |
Rudyard Kipling
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