Mowgli's Song Against People Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCC DDEBCB FFEBCB BBEBCB FFGCCCI will let loose against you the fleet footed vines | A |
I will call in the Jungle to stamp out your lines | A |
The roofs shall fade before it | B |
The house beams shall fall | C |
And the Karela the bitter Karela | C |
Shall cover it all | C |
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In the gates of these your councils my people shall sing | D |
In the doors of these your garners the Bat folk shall cling | D |
And the snake shall be your watchman | E |
By a hearthstone unswept | B |
For the Karela the bitter Karela | C |
Shall fruit where ye slept | B |
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Ye shall not see my strikers ye shall hear them and guess | F |
By night before the moon rise I will send for my cess | F |
And the wolf shall be your herdsman | E |
By a landmark removed | B |
For the Karela the bitter Karela | C |
Shall seed where ye loved | B |
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I will reap your fields before you at the hands of a host | B |
Ye shall glean behind my reapers for the bread that is lost | B |
And the deer shall be your oxen | E |
On a headland untilled | B |
For the Karela the bitter Karela | C |
Shall leaf where ye build | B |
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I have untied against you the club footed vines | F |
I have sent in the Jungle to swamp out your lines | F |
The trees the trees are on you | G |
The house beams shall fall | C |
And the Karela the bitter Karela | C |
Shall cover you all | C |
Rudyard Kipling
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