The First Chantey Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA BBCC AAAA AADD BBDD AADD DDEE FFDD| Mine was the woman to me darkling I found her | A |
| Haling her dumb from the camp took her and bound her | A |
| Hot rose her tribe on our track ere I had proved her | A |
| Hearing her laugh in the gloom greatly I loved her | A |
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| Swift through the forest we ran none stood to guard us | B |
| Few were my people and far then the flood barred us | B |
| Him we call Son of the Sea sullen and swollen | C |
| Panting we waited the death stealer and stolen | C |
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| Yet ere they came to my lance laid for the slaughter | A |
| Lightly she leaped to a log lapped in the water | A |
| Holding on high and apart skins that arrayed her | A |
| Called she the God of the Wind that He should aid her | A |
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| Life had the tree at that word Praise we the Giver | A |
| Otter like left he the bank for the full river | A |
| Far fell their axes behind flashing and ringing | D |
| Wonder was on me and fear yet she was singing | D |
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| Low lay the land we had left Now the blue bound us | B |
| Even the Floor of the Gods level around us | B |
| Whisper there was not nor word shadow nor showing | D |
| Till the light stirred on the deep glowing and growing | D |
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| Then did He leap to His place flaring from under | A |
| He the Compeller the Sun bared to our wonder | A |
| Nay not a league from our eyes blinded with gazing | D |
| Cleared He the gate of the world huge and amazing | D |
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| This we beheld and we live the Pit of the Burning | D |
| Then the God spoke to the tree for our returning | D |
| Back to the beach of our flight fearless and slowly | E |
| Back to our slayers went he but we were holy | E |
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| Men that were hot in that hunt women that followed | F |
| Babes that were promised our bones trembled and wallowed | F |
| Over the necks of the Tribe crouching and fawning | D |
| Prophet and priestess we came back from the dawning | D |
Rudyard Kipling
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