Gypsy Vans Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCEAFAF GHIHJKJLMFGF NONOPQPQNFNF NRNRSFSFNFNF| Unless you come of the gipsy stock | A |
| That steals by night and day | B |
| Lock your heart with a double lock | A |
| And throw the key away | B |
| Bury it under the blackest stone | C |
| Beneath your father's hearth | D |
| And keep your eyes on your lawful own | C |
| And your feet to the proper path | E |
| Then you can stand at your door and mock | A |
| When the gipsy vans come through | F |
| For it isn't right that the Gorgio stock | A |
| Should live as the Romany do | F |
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| Unless you come of the gipsy blood | G |
| That takes and never spares | H |
| Bide content with your given good | I |
| And follow your own affairs | H |
| Plough and harrow and roll your land | J |
| And sow what ought to be sowed | K |
| But never let loose your heart from your hand | J |
| Nor flitter it down the road | L |
| Then you can thrive on your boughten food | M |
| As the gipsy vans come through | F |
| For it isn't nature the Gorgio blood | G |
| Should love as the Romany do | F |
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| Unless you carry the gipsy eyes | N |
| That see but seldom weep | O |
| Keep your head from the naked skies | N |
| Or the stars'll trouble your sleep | O |
| Watch your moon through your window pane | P |
| And take what weather she brews | Q |
| But don't run out in the midnight rain | P |
| Nor home in the morning dews | Q |
| Then you can buddle and shut your eyes | N |
| As the gipsy vans come through | F |
| For it isn't fitting the Gorgio ryes | N |
| Should walk as the Romany do | F |
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| Unless you come of the gipsy race | N |
| That counts all time the same | R |
| Be you careful of Time and Place | N |
| And Judgment and Good Name | R |
| Lose your life for to live your life | S |
| The way that you ought to do | F |
| And when you are finished your God and your wife | S |
| And the Gipsies'll laugh at you | F |
| Then you can rot in your burying place | N |
| As the gipsy vans come through | F |
| For it isn't reason the Gorgio race | N |
| Should die as the Romany do | F |
Rudyard Kipling
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