Beast And Man In India Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABA CDED AFGF H AAAA CICI C IIII ICIC I JKIK ICLC MNMN A AALLAAOOAAIILLPIThey killed a Child to please the Gods | A |
In Earth's young penitence | A |
And I have bled in that Babe's stead | B |
Because of innocence | A |
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I bear the sins of sinful men | C |
That have no sin of my own | D |
They drive me forth to Heaven's wrath | E |
Unpastured and alone | D |
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I am the meat of sacrifice | A |
The ransom of man's guilt | F |
For they give my life to the altar knife | G |
Wherever shrine is built | F |
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The Goat | H |
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Between the waving tufts of jungle grass | A |
Up from the river as the twilight falls | A |
Across the dust beclouded plain they pass | A |
On to the village walls | A |
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Great is the sword and mighty is the pen | C |
But over all the labouring ploughman's blade | I |
For on its oxen and its husbandmen | C |
An Empire's strength is laid | I |
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The Oxen | C |
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The torn boughs trailing o'er the tusks aslant | I |
The saplings reeling in the path he trod | I |
Declare his might our lord the Elephant | I |
Chief of the ways of God | I |
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The black bulk heaving where the oxen pant | I |
The bowed head toiling where the guns careen | C |
Declare our might our slave the Elephant | I |
And servant of the Queen | C |
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The Elephant | I |
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Dark children of the mere and marsh | J |
Wallow and waste and lea | K |
Outcaste they wait at the village gate | I |
With folk of low degree | K |
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Their pasture is in no man's land | I |
Their food the cattle's scorn | C |
Their rest is mire and their desire | L |
The thicket and the thorn | C |
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But woe to those that break their sleep | M |
And woe to those that dare | N |
To rouse the herd bull from his keep | M |
The wild boar from his lair | N |
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Pigs and Buffaloes | A |
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The beasts are very wise | A |
Their mouths are clean of lies | A |
They talk one to the other | L |
Bullock to bullock's brother | L |
Resting after their labours | A |
Each in stall with his neighbours | A |
But man with goad and whip | O |
Breaks up their fellowship | O |
Shouts in their silky ears | A |
Filling their soul with fears | A |
When he has ploughed the land | I |
He says quot They understand quot | I |
But the beasts in stall together | L |
Freed from the yoke and tether | L |
Say as the torn flanks smoke | P |
quot Nay 'twas the whip that spoke quot | I |
Rudyard Kipling
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