Chapter Headings Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCBBD EFEG HIHIJ KBFLFEM NJNJOJP QQQQRRD STSTUUVVE WWXYYXZ A2B2A2B2C2C2D D2E2BE2BBN F2EF2F2Q G2H2XH2TTTG2B I2J2BNJ2B D2K2L2G2 G2D2L2M2 J2QJ2UQQ J2J2QQBBJ2J2J2J2B BEBEJ2J2N2| Plain Tales From the Hills | A |
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| Look you have cast out Love What Gods are these | B |
| You bid me please | B |
| The Three in One the One in Three Not so | C |
| To my own Gods I go | C |
| It may be they shall give me greater ease | B |
| Than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities | B |
| Lispeth | D |
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| When the earth was sick and the skies were grey | E |
| And the woods were rotted with rain | F |
| The Dead Man rode through the autumn day | E |
| To visit his love again | G |
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| His love she neither saw nor heard | H |
| So heavy was her shame | I |
| And tho' the babe within her stirred | H |
| She knew not that he came | I |
| The Other Man | J |
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| Cry Murder in the market place and each | K |
| Will turn upon his neighbour anxious eyes | B |
| Asking Art thou the man We hunted Cain | F |
| Some centuries ago across the world | L |
| This bred the fear our own misdeeds maintain | F |
| To day | E |
| His Wedded Wife | M |
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| Go stalk the red deer o'er the heather | N |
| Ride follow the fox if you can | J |
| But for pleasure and profit together | N |
| Allow me the hunting of Man | J |
| The chase of the Human the search for the Soul | O |
| To its ruin the hunting of Man | J |
| Pig | P |
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| 'Stopped in the straight when the race was his own | Q |
| Look at him cutting it cur to the bone | Q |
| Ask ere the youngster be rated and chidden | Q |
| What did he carry and how was he ridden | Q |
| May be they used him too much at the start | R |
| May be Fate's weight cloth are breaking his heart | R |
| In the Pride of his Youth | D |
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| And some are sulky while some will plunge | S |
| So ho Steady Stand still you | T |
| Some you must gentle and some you must lunge | S |
| There There Who wants to kill you | T |
| Some there are losses in every trade | U |
| Wll break their hearts ere bitted and made | U |
| Will fight like fiends as the rope cuts hard | V |
| And die dumb mad in the breaking yard | V |
| Thrown Away | E |
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| The World hath set its heavy yoke | W |
| Upon the old white bearded folk | W |
| Who strive to please the King | X |
| God's mercy is upon the young | Y |
| God's wisdom in the baby tongue | Y |
| That fears not anything | X |
| Tod's Amendment | Z |
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| Not though you die to night Sweet and wail | A2 |
| A spectre at my door | B2 |
| Shall mortal Fear make Love immortal fail | A2 |
| I shall but love you more | B2 |
| Who from Death's House returning give me still | C2 |
| One moment's comfort in my matchless ill | C2 |
| By Word of Mouth | D |
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| They burnt a corpse upon the sand | D2 |
| The light shone out afar | E2 |
| It guided home the plunging dhows | B |
| That beat from Zanzibar | E2 |
| Spirit of Fire where'er Thy altars rise | B |
| Thou art the Light of Guidance to our eyes | B |
| In Error | N |
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| Ride with an idle whip ride with an unused heel | F2 |
| But once in a way there will come a day | E |
| When the colt must be taught to feel | F2 |
| The lash that falls and the curb that galls and the sting of the rowelled steel | F2 |
| The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin | Q |
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| It was not in the open fight | G2 |
| We threw away the sword | H2 |
| But in the lonely watching | X |
| In the darkness by the ford | H2 |
| The waters lapped the night wind blew | T |
| Full armed the Fear was born and grew | T |
| And we were flying ere we knew | T |
| From panic in the night | G2 |
| The Rout of the White Hussars | B |
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| In the daytime when she moved about me | I2 |
| In the night when she was sleeping at my side | J2 |
| I was wearied I was wearied of her presence | B |
| Day by day and night by night I grew to hate her | N |
| Would God that she or I had died | J2 |
| The Bronckhorst Divorce Case | B |
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| A stone's throw out on either hand | D2 |
| From that well ordered road we tread | K2 |
| And all the world is wild and strange | L2 |
| Churel and ghoul and Djinn and sprite | G2 |
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| Shall bear us company to night | G2 |
| For we have reached the Oldest Land | D2 |
| Wherein the powers of Darkness range | L2 |
| In The House of Suddhoo | M2 |
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| To night God knows what thing shall tide | J2 |
| The Earth is racked and fain | Q |
| Expectant sleepless open eyed | J2 |
| And we who from the Earth were made | U |
| Thrill with our Mother's pain | Q |
| False Dawn | Q |
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| Pit where the buffalo cooled his hide | J2 |
| By the hot sun emptied and blistered and dried | J2 |
| Log in the plume grass hidden and lone | Q |
| Bund where the earth rat's mounds are strown | Q |
| Cave in the bank where the sly stream steals | B |
| Aloe that stabs at the belly and heels | B |
| Jump if you dare on a steed untried | J2 |
| Safer it is to go wide go wide | J2 |
| Hark from in front where the best men ride | J2 |
| Pull to the off boys Wide Go wide | J2 |
| Cupid's Arrows | B |
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| He drank strong waters and his speech was coarse | B |
| He purchased raiment and forbore to pay | E |
| He stuck a trusting junior with a horse | B |
| And won gymkhanas in a doubtful way | E |
| Then 'twixt a vice and folly turned aside | J2 |
| To do good deeds and straight to cloak them lied | J2 |
| A Bank Fraud | N2 |
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