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 TTWestern Version | A |
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Cain and Abel were brothers born | B |
Koop la Come along cows | C |
One raised cattle and one raised corn | B |
Koop la Come along Co hoe | D |
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And Cain he farmed by the river side | E |
So he did not care how much it dried | E |
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For he banked and he sluiced and he ditched and he led | F |
And the Corn don't care for the Horn | B |
A half Euphrates out of her bed | F |
To water his dam' Corn | B |
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But Abel herded out on the plains | G |
Where you have to go by the dams and rains | G |
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It happened after a three year drought | H |
The wells and the springs and the dams gave out | H |
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The Herd bulls came to Cain's new house | I |
They wanted water so | D |
With the hot red Sun between their brows | C |
Sayin' quot Give us water for our pore cows quot | H |
But Cain he told 'em quot No quot | H |
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The Cows they came to Cain's big house | I |
With the cold white Moon between their brows | C |
Sayin' quot Give some water to us pore cows quot | H |
But Cain he told 'em quot No quot | H |
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The li'l Calves came to Cain's fine house | I |
With the Evenin' Star between their brows | C |
Sayin' quot 'Give us water an' we'll be cows quot | H |
But Cain he told 'em quot No quot | H |
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The Herd bulls led 'em back again | J |
An' Abel went an' said to Cain | K |
quot Oh sell me water my brother dear | L |
Or there will be no beef this year quot | H |
And Cain he answered quot No quot | H |
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quot Then draw your hatches my brother true | M |
An' let a little water through quot | H |
But Cain he answered quot No | D |
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quot My dams are tight an' my ditches are sound | H |
An' not a drop goes through or round | H |
Till she's done her duty by the Corn | B |
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quot I will not sell an' I will not draw | N |
An' if you breach I'll have the Law | N |
As sure as you are borne quot | H |
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Then Abel took his best bull goad | H |
An' holed a dyke on the Eden road | H |
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He opened her up with foot an' hand | H |
An' let Euphrates loose on the land | H |
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He spilled Euphrates out on the plain | K |
So's all his cattle could drink again | J |
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Then Cain he saw what Abel done | A |
But in those days there was no Gun | A |
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So he made him a club of a hickory limb | O |
An' halted Abel an' said to him | O |
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quot I did not sell an' I did not draw | N |
An' now you've breached I'll have the Law | N |
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quot You ride abroad in your hat and spurs | P |
Hell hoofin' over my cucumbers | P |
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quot You pray to the Lord to send you luck | Q |
An' you loose your steers in my garden truck | Q |
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quot An' now you're bust as you ought to be | R |
You can keep on prayin' but not to me quot | H |
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Then Abel saw it meant the life | S |
But in those days there was no Knife | S |
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So he up with his big bull goad instead | H |
But Cain hit first and dropped him dead | H |
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The Herd bulls ran when they smelt the blood | H |
An' horned an' pawed in that Red Mud | H |
The Calves they bawled and the Steers they milled | H |
Because it was the First Man Killed | H |
An' the whole Herd broke for the Land of Nod | H |
An' Cain was left to be judged by God | H |
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But seein' all he had had to bear | T |
I never could call the Judgment fair | T |
Rudyard Kipling
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