Hadramauti Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEE FFBB FFGG BBHH IIIIBB| Who knows the heart of the Christian How does he reason | A |
| What are his measures and balances Which is his season | A |
| For laughter forbearance or bloodshed and what devils move him | B |
| When he arises to smite us I do not love him | B |
| He invites the derision of strangers he enters all places | C |
| Booted bareheaded he enters With shouts and embraces | D |
| He asks of us news of the household whom we reckon nameless | E |
| Certainly Allah created him forty fold shameless | E |
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| So it is not in the Desert One came to me weeping | F |
| The Avenger of Blood on his track I took him in keeping | F |
| Demanding not whom he had slain I refreshed him I fed him | B |
| As he were even a brother But Eblis had bred him | B |
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| He was the son of an ape ill at ease in his clothing | F |
| He talked with his head hands and feet I endured him with loathing | F |
| Whatever his spirit conceived his countenance showed it | G |
| As a frog shows in a mud puddle Yet I abode it | G |
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| I fingered my beard and was dumb in silence confronting him | B |
| His soul was too shallow for silence e'en with Death hunting him | B |
| I said quot 'Tis his weariness speaks quot but when he had rested | H |
| He chirped in my face like some sparrow and presently jested | H |
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| Wherefore slew I that stranger He brought me dishonour | I |
| I saddled my mare Bijli I set him upon her | I |
| I gave him rice and goat's flesh He bared me to laughter | I |
| When he was gone from my tent swift I followed after | I |
| Taking my sword in my hand The hot wine had filled him | B |
| Under the stars he mocked me therefore I killed him | B |
Rudyard Kipling
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