Road Song Of The Bandar-log Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEE CCFFGGEE HHIIJJEEE| Here we go in a flung festoon | A |
| Half way up to the jealous moon | A |
| Don't you envy our pranceful bands | B |
| Don't you wish you had extra hands | B |
| Would n't you like if your tails were so | C |
| Curved in the shape of a Cupid's bow | D |
| Now you're angry but never mind | E |
| Brother thy tail hangs down behind | E |
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| Here we sit in a branchy row | C |
| Thinking of beautiful things we know | C |
| Dreaming of deeds that we mean to do | F |
| All complete in a minute or two | F |
| Something noble and grand and good | G |
| Won by merely wishing we could | G |
| Now we're going to never mind | E |
| Brother thy tail hangs down behind | E |
| - | |
| All the talk we ever have heard | H |
| Uttered by bat or beast or bird | H |
| Hide or fin or scale or feather | I |
| Jabber it quickly and all together | I |
| Excellent Wonderful Once again | J |
| Now we are talking just like men | J |
| Let 's pretend we are never mind | E |
| Brother thy tail hangs down behind | E |
| This is the way of the Monkey kind | E |
Rudyard Kipling
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