Cain And Abel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCBD EE FBFB GG HH IDCHH ICHH ICHH JKLHH MHD HHB NNH HH HH KJ AA OO NN PP QQ RH SS HH HHHHHH TT

Western VersionA
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Cain and Abel were brothers bornB
Koop la Come along cowsC
One raised cattle and one raised cornB
Koop la Come along Co hoeD
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And Cain he farmed by the river sideE
So he did not care how much it driedE
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For he banked and he sluiced and he ditched and he ledF
And the Corn don't care for the HornB
A half Euphrates out of her bedF
To water his dam' CornB
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But Abel herded out on the plainsG
Where you have to go by the dams and rainsG
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It happened after a three year droughtH
The wells and the springs and the dams gave outH
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The Herd bulls came to Cain's new houseI
They wanted water soD
With the hot red Sun between their browsC
Sayin' quot Give us water for our pore cows quotH
But Cain he told 'em quot No quotH
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The Cows they came to Cain's big houseI
With the cold white Moon between their browsC
Sayin' quot Give some water to us pore cows quotH
But Cain he told 'em quot No quotH
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The li'l Calves came to Cain's fine houseI
With the Evenin' Star between their browsC
Sayin' quot 'Give us water an' we'll be cows quotH
But Cain he told 'em quot No quotH
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The Herd bulls led 'em back againJ
An' Abel went an' said to CainK
quot Oh sell me water my brother dearL
Or there will be no beef this year quotH
And Cain he answered quot No quotH
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quot Then draw your hatches my brother trueM
An' let a little water through quotH
But Cain he answered quot NoD
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quot My dams are tight an' my ditches are soundH
An' not a drop goes through or roundH
Till she's done her duty by the CornB
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quot I will not sell an' I will not drawN
An' if you breach I'll have the LawN
As sure as you are borne quotH
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Then Abel took his best bull goadH
An' holed a dyke on the Eden roadH
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He opened her up with foot an' handH
An' let Euphrates loose on the landH
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He spilled Euphrates out on the plainK
So's all his cattle could drink againJ
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Then Cain he saw what Abel doneA
But in those days there was no GunA
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So he made him a club of a hickory limbO
An' halted Abel an' said to himO
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quot I did not sell an' I did not drawN
An' now you've breached I'll have the LawN
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quot You ride abroad in your hat and spursP
Hell hoofin' over my cucumbersP
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quot You pray to the Lord to send you luckQ
An' you loose your steers in my garden truckQ
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quot An' now you're bust as you ought to beR
You can keep on prayin' but not to me quotH
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Then Abel saw it meant the lifeS
But in those days there was no KnifeS
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So he up with his big bull goad insteadH
But Cain hit first and dropped him deadH
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The Herd bulls ran when they smelt the bloodH
An' horned an' pawed in that Red MudH
The Calves they bawled and the Steers they milledH
Because it was the First Man KilledH
An' the whole Herd broke for the Land of NodH
An' Cain was left to be judged by GodH
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But seein' all he had had to bearT
I never could call the Judgment fairT

Rudyard Kipling



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