Evarra And His Gods Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCEFCGHCIJKGGG BCLIECCGIGMGGG BCNCCOPQRGCGGGG BCGSTCCGCGCUCGGG CGGVGCCOCOGCC BC| Read here | A |
| This is the story of Evarra man | B |
| Maker of Gods in lands beyond the sea | C |
| Because the city gave him of her gold | D |
| Because the caravans brought turquoises | C |
| Because his life was sheltered by the King | E |
| So that no man should maim him none should steal | F |
| Or break his rest with babble in the streets | C |
| When he was weary after toil he made | G |
| An image of his God in gold and pearl | H |
| With turquoise diadem and human eyes | C |
| A wonder in the sunshine known afar | I |
| And worshipped by the King but drunk with pride | J |
| Because the city bowed to him for God | K |
| He wrote above the shrine quot Thus Gods are made | G |
| And whoso makes them otherwise shall die quot | G |
| And all the city praised him Then he died | G |
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| Read here the story of Evarra man | B |
| Maker of Gods in lands beyond the sea | C |
| Because the city had no wealth to give | L |
| Because the caravans were spoiled afar | I |
| Because his life was threatened by the King | E |
| So that all men despised him in the streets | C |
| He hewed the living rock with sweat and tears | C |
| And reared a God against the morning gold | G |
| A terror in the sunshine seen afar | I |
| And worshipped by the King but drunk with pride | G |
| Because the city fawned to bring him back | M |
| He carved upon the plinth quot Thus Gods are made | G |
| And whoso makes them otherwise shall die quot | G |
| And all the people praised him Then he died | G |
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| Read here the story of Evarra man | B |
| Maker of Gods in lands beyond the sea | C |
| Because he lived among a simple folk | N |
| Because his village was between the hills | C |
| Because he smeared his cheeks with blood of ewes | C |
| He cut an idol from a fallen pine | O |
| Smeared blood upon its cheeks and wedged a shell | P |
| Above its brows for eyes and gave it hair | Q |
| Of trailing moss and plaited straw for crown | R |
| And all the village praised him for this craft | G |
| And brought him butter honey milk and curds | C |
| Wherefore because the shoutings drove him mad | G |
| He scratched upon that log quot Thus Gods are made | G |
| And whoso makes them otherwise shall die quot | G |
| And all the people praised him Then he died | G |
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| Read here the story of Evarra man | B |
| Maker of Gods in lands beyond the sea | C |
| Because his God decreed one clot of blood | G |
| Should swerve one hair's breadth from the pulse's path | S |
| And chafe his brain Evarra mowed alone | T |
| Rag wrapped among the cattle in the fields | C |
| Counting his fingers jesting with the trees | C |
| And mocking at the mist until his God | G |
| Drove him to labour Out of dung and horns | C |
| Dropped in the mire he made a monstrous God | G |
| Abhorrent shapeless crowned with plantain tufts | C |
| And when the cattle lowed at twilight time | U |
| He dreamed it was the clamour of lost crowds | C |
| And howled among the beasts quot Thus Gods are made | G |
| And whoso makes them otherwise shall die quot | G |
| Thereat the cattle bellowed Then he died | G |
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| Yet at the last he came to Paradise | C |
| And found his own four Gods and that he wrote | G |
| And marvelled being very near to God | G |
| What oaf on earth had made his toil God's law | V |
| Till God said mocking quot Mock not These be thine quot | G |
| Then cried Evarra quot I have sinned quot quot Not so | C |
| If thou hadst written otherwise thy Gods | C |
| Had rested in the mountain and the mine | O |
| And I were poorer by four wondrous Gods | C |
| And thy more wondrous law Evarra Thine | O |
| Servant of shouting crowds and lowing kine quot | G |
| Thereat with laughing mouth but tear wet eyes | C |
| Evarra cast his Gods from Paradise | C |
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| This is the story of Evarra man | B |
| Maker of Gods in lands beyond the sea | C |
Rudyard Kipling
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