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 BEBEJ2J2N2Plain 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 |
Rudyard Kipling
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