Giffen's Debt Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Imprimis he was quot broke quot Thereafter left	A
His Regiment and later took to drink	B
Then having lost the balance of his friends	C
quot Went Fantee quot joined the people of the land	D
Turned three parts Mussulman and one Hindu	E
And lived among the Gauri villagers	F
Who gave him shelter and a wife or twain	G
And boasted that a thorough full blood sahib	H
Had come among them Thus he spent his time	I
Deeply indebted to the village shroff	J
Who never asked for payment always drunk	K
Unclean abominable out at heels	L
Forgetting that he was an Englishman	M
	-
You know they dammed the Gauri with a dam	N
And all the good contractors scamped their work	O
And all the bad material at hand	D
Was used to dam the Gauri which was cheap	P
And therefore proper Then the Gauri burst	Q
And several hundred thousand cubic tons	R
Of water dropped into the valley flop	S
And drowned some five and twenty villagers	F
And did a lakh or two of detriment	T
To crops and cattle When the flood went down	U
We found him dead beneath an old dead horse	V
Full six miles down the valley So we said	W
He was a victim to the Demon Drink	B
And moralised upon him for a week	X
And then forgot him Which was natural	Y
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But in the valley of the Gauri men	Z
Beneath the shadow of the big new dam	N
Relate a foolish legend of the flood	A2
Accounting for the little loss of life	B2
Only those five and twenty villagers	F
In this wise On the evening of the flood	A2
They heard the groaning of the rotten dam	N
And voices of the Mountain Devils Then	Z
And incarnation of the local God	C2
Mounted upon a monster neighing horse	V
And flourishing a flail like whip came down	U
Breathing ambrosia to the villages	D2
And fell upon the simple villagers	F
With yells beyond the power of mortal throat	E2
And blows beyond the power of mortal hand	D
And smote them with his flail like whip and drove	F2
Them clamorous with terror up the hill	G2
And scattered with the monster neighing steed	H2
Their crazy cottages about their ears	I2
And generally cleared those villages	D2
Then came the water and the local God	C2
Breathing ambrosia flourishing his whip	J2
And mounted on his monster neighing steed	H2
Went down the valley with the flying trees	K2
And residue of homesteads while they watched	L2
Safe on the mountain side these wondrous things	M2
And knew that they were much beloved of Heaven	M
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Wherefore and when the dam was newly built	N2
They raised a temple to the local God	C2
And burnt all manner of unsavoury things	M2
Upon his altar and created priests	O2
And blew into a conch and banged a bell	P2
And told the story of the Gauri flood	A2
With circumstance and much embroidery	Q2
So hi the whiskified Objectionable	Y
Unclean abominable out at heels	L
Became the tutelary Deity	Q2
Of all the Gauri valley villages	D2
And may in time become a Solar Myth	R2

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