The Jungle Books Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE G HHIIDDJJK LLMMJJBBNNLLOOP QQJJHHLLD RSRSTUUUUUV UUO KKWWXAXAXY VXVX VIVIK UUZZ A2B2A2B2 C2B2C2B2D2 OUOUE2OZOF2 QOOOG2ZH2H2ZF2 UOUO I2OI2OO E2E2AAJ2J2UUU K2K2O D2L2D2L2 M2UM2U I2XI2XL2Now Chil the Kite brings home the night | A |
That Mang the Bat sets free | B |
The herds are shut in byre and hut | C |
For loosed till dawn are we | B |
This is the hour of pride and power | D |
Talon and tush and claw | E |
Oh hear the call Good hunting all | F |
That keep the Jungle Law | E |
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Mowgli's Brothers | G |
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His spots are the joy of the Leopard his horns are the Buffalo's pride | H |
Be clean for the strength of the hunter is known by the gloss of his hide | H |
If ye find that the bullock can toss you or the heavy browed Sambhur can gore | I |
Ye need not stop work to inform us We knew it ten seasons before | I |
Oppress not the cubs of the stranger but hail them as Sister and Brother | D |
For though they are little and fubsy it may be the Bear is their mother | D |
There is none like to me says the Cub in the pride of his earliest kill | J |
Butt the Jungle is large and the Cub he is small Let him think and be still | J |
Kaa's Hunting | K |
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The stream is shrunk the pool is dry | L |
And we be comrades thou and I | L |
With fevered jowl and dusty flank | M |
Each jostling each along the bank | M |
And by one drouthy fear made still | J |
Forgoing thought of quest or kill | J |
Now 'neath his dam the fawn may see | B |
The lean Pack wolf as cowed as he | B |
And the tall buck unflinching note | N |
The fangs that tore his father's throat | N |
The pools are shrunk the streams are dry | L |
And we be playmates thou and I | L |
Till yonder cloud Good Hunting loose | O |
The rain that breaks our Water Truce | O |
How Fear Came | P |
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What of the hunting hunter bold | Q |
Brother the watch was long and cold | Q |
What of the quarry ye went to kill | J |
Brother he crops in the jungle still | J |
Where is the power that made your pride | H |
Brother it ebbs from my flank and side | H |
Where is the haste that ye hurry by | L |
Brother I go to my lair to die | L |
Tiger Tiger | D |
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Veil them cover them wall them round | R |
Blossom and creeper and weed | S |
Let us forget the sight and the sound | R |
The smell and the touch of the breed | S |
Fat black ash by the altar stone | T |
Here is the white foot rain | U |
And the does bring forth in the fields unsown | U |
And none shall affright them again | U |
And the blind walls crumble unknown o'erthrown | U |
And none shall inhabit again | U |
Letting in the Jungle | V |
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These are the Four that are never content that have never be filled since the Dews began | U |
Jacala's mouth and the glut of the Kite and the hands of the Ape and the Eyes of Man | U |
The King's Ankus | O |
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For our white and our excellent nights for the nights of swift running | K |
Fair ranging far seeing good hunting sure cunning | K |
For the smells of the dawning untainted ere dew has departed | W |
For the rush through the mist and the quarry blind started | W |
For the cry of our mates when the sambhur has wheeled and is standing at bay | X |
For the risk and the riot of night | A |
For the sleep at the lair mouth by day | X |
It is met and we go to the fight | A |
Bay O bay | X |
Red Dog | Y |
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Man goes to Man Cry the challenge through the Jungle | V |
He that was our Brother goes away | X |
Hear now and judge O ye People of the Jungle | V |
Answer who can turn him who shall stay | X |
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Man goes to Man He is weeping in the Jungle | V |
He that was our Brother sorrows sore | I |
Man goes to Man Oh we loved him in the Jungle | V |
To the Man Trail where we may not follow more | I |
The Spring Running | K |
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At the hole where he went in | U |
Red Eye called to Wrinkle Skin | U |
Hear what little Red Eye saith | Z |
Nag come up and dance with death | Z |
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Eye to eye and head to head | A2 |
Keep the measure Nag | B2 |
This shall end when one is dead | A2 |
At thy pleasure Nag | B2 |
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Turn for turn and twist for twist | C2 |
Run and hide thee Nag | B2 |
Hah The hooded Death has missed | C2 |
Woe betide thee Nag | B2 |
Rikki Tikki Tavi | D2 |
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Oh hush thee my baby the night is behind us | O |
And black are the waters that sparkled so green | U |
The moon o'er the combers looks downward to find us | O |
At rest in the hollows that rustle between | U |
Where billow meets billow there soft be thy pillow | E2 |
Ah weary wee flipperling curl at thy ease | O |
The storm shall not wake thee nor shark overtake thee | Z |
Asleep in the arms of the slow swinging seas | O |
The White Seal | F2 |
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You mustn't swim till you're six weeks old | Q |
Or your head will be sunk by your heels | O |
And summer gales and Killer Whales | O |
Are bad for baby seals | O |
Are bad for baby seals dear rat | G2 |
As bad as bad can be | Z |
But splash and grow strong | H2 |
And you can't be wrong | H2 |
Child of the Open Sea | Z |
The White Seal | F2 |
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I will remember what I was I am sick of rope and chain | U |
I will remember my old strength and all my forest affairs | O |
I will not sell my back to man for a bundle of sugarcane | U |
I will go out to my own kind and the wood folk in their lairs | O |
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I will go out until the day until the morning break | I2 |
Out to the winds' untainted kiss the waters' clean caress | O |
I will forget my ankle ring and snap my picket stake | I2 |
I will revisit my lost loves and playmates masterless | O |
Toomai of the Elephants | O |
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The People of the Eastern Ice they are melting like the snow | E2 |
They beg for coffee and sugar they go where the white men go | E2 |
The People of the Western Ice they learn to steal and fight | A |
They sell their furs to the trading post they sell their souls to the white | A |
The People of the Southern Ice they trade with the whaler's crew | J2 |
Their women have many ribbons but their tents are torn and few | J2 |
But the People of the Elder Ice beyond the white man's ken | U |
Their spears are made of the narwhal horn and they are the last of the Men | U |
Quiquern | U |
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When ye say to Tabaqui My Brother when ye call the Hyena to meat | K2 |
Ye may cry the Full Truce with Jacala the Belly that runs on four feet | K2 |
The Undertakers | O |
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The night we felt the earth would move | D2 |
We stole and plucked him by the hand | L2 |
Because we loved him with the love | D2 |
That knows but cannot understand | L2 |
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And when the roaring hillside broke | M2 |
And all our world fell down in rain | U |
We saved him we the Little Folk | M2 |
But lo he does not come again | U |
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Mourn now we saved him for the sake | I2 |
Of such poor love as wild ones may | X |
Mourn ye Our brother will not wake | I2 |
And his own kind drive us away | X |
The Miracle of Purun Bhagat | L2 |
Rudyard Kipling
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