In The Neolithic Age Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH HJKK LKMK GHNH OPMP AQKQ RCSC MKMK| In the Neolithic Age savage warfare did I wage | A |
| For food and fame and woolly horses' pelt | B |
| I was singer to my clan in that dim red Dawn of Man | C |
| And I sang of all we fought and feared and felt | B |
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| Yea I sang as now I sing when the Prehistoric spring | D |
| Made the piled Biscayan ice pack split and shove | E |
| And the troll and gnome and dwerg and the Gods of Cliff and Berg | F |
| Were about me and beneath me and above | E |
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| But a rival of Solutr e told the tribe my style was outr e | G |
| 'Neath a tomahawk of diorite he fell | H |
| And I left my views on Art barbed and tanged below the heart | I |
| Of a mammothistic etcher at Grenelle | H |
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| Then I stripped them scalp from skull and my hunting dogs fed full | H |
| And their teeth I threaded neatly on a thong | J |
| And I wiped my mouth and said quot It is well that they are dead | K |
| For I know my work is right and theirs was wrong quot | K |
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| But my Totem saw the shame from his ridgepole shrine he came | L |
| And he told me in a vision of the night | K |
| quot There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays | M |
| And every single one of them is right quot | K |
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| Then the silence closed upon me till They put new clothing on me | G |
| Of whiter weaker flesh and bone more frail | H |
| And I stepped beneath Time's finger once again a tribal singer | N |
| And a minor poet certified by Tr ll | H |
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| Still they skirmish to and fro men my messmates on the snow | O |
| When we headed off the aurochs turn for turn | P |
| When the rich Allobrogenses never kept amanuenses | M |
| And our only plots were piled in lakes at Berne | P |
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| Still a cultured Christian age sees us scuffle squeak and rage | A |
| Still we pinch and slap and jabber scratch and dirk | Q |
| Still we let our business slide as we dropped the half dressed hide | K |
| To show a fellow savage how to work | Q |
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| Still the world is wondrous large seven seas from marge to marge | R |
| And it holds a vast of various kinds of man | C |
| And the wildest dreams of Kew are the facts of Khatmandhu | S |
| And the crimes of Clapham chaste in Martaban | C |
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| Here's my wisdom for your use as I learned it when the moose | M |
| And the reindeer roared where Paris roars to night | K |
| There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays | M |
| And every single one of them is right | K |
Rudyard Kipling
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