The Floods Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDB EBEBFFDB GBGBHHDB IBIBJJDB KBKBLLDB| The rain it rains without a stay | A |
| In the hills above us in the hills | B |
| And presently the floods break way | A |
| Whose strength is in the hills | B |
| The trees they suck from every cloud | C |
| The valley brooks they roar aloud | C |
| Bank high for the lowlands lowlands | D |
| Lowlands under the hills | B |
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| The first wood down is sere and small | E |
| From the hills the brishings off the hills | B |
| And then come by the bats and all | E |
| We cut last year in the hills | B |
| And then the roots we tried to cleave | F |
| But found too tough and had to leave | F |
| Polting down the lowlands lowlands | D |
| Lowlands under the hills | B |
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| The eye shall look the ear shall hark | G |
| To the hills the doings in the hills | B |
| And rivers mating in the dark | G |
| With tokens from the hills | B |
| Now what is weak will surely go | H |
| And what is strong must prove it so | H |
| Stand Fast in the lowlands lowlands | D |
| Lowlands under the hills | B |
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| The floods they shall not be afraid | I |
| Nor the hills above 'em nor the hills | B |
| Of any fence which man has made | I |
| Betwixt him and the hills | B |
| The waters shall not reckon twice | J |
| For any work of man's device | J |
| But bid it down to the lowlands lowlands | D |
| Lowlands under the hills | B |
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| The floods shall sweep corruption clean | K |
| By the hills the blessing of the hills | B |
| That more the meadows may be green | K |
| New mended from the hills | B |
| The crops and cattle shall increase | L |
| Nor little children shall not cease | L |
| Go plough the lowlands lowlands | D |
| Lowlands under the hills | B |
Rudyard Kipling
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