Poison Of Asps (a Brazilian Snake-farm) (brazilian Verses) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD AEAE FGFG ACACPoison of asps is under our lips | A |
Why do you seek us then | B |
Breaking our knotted fellowships | A |
With your noisy footed men | B |
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Time and time over we let them go | C |
Hearing and slipping aside | D |
Until they followed and troubled us so | C |
We struck back and they died | D |
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Poison of asps is under our lips | A |
Why do you wrench them apart | E |
To learn how the venom makes and drips | A |
And works its way to the heart | E |
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It is unjust that when we have done | F |
All that a serpent should | G |
You gather our poisons one by one | F |
And thin them out to your good | G |
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Poison of asps is under our lips | A |
That is your answer No | C |
Because we hissed at Adam's eclipse | A |
Is the reason you hate us so | C |
Rudyard Kipling
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