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 I2XI2XL2

Now Chil the Kite brings home the nightA
That Mang the Bat sets freeB
The herds are shut in byre and hutC
For loosed till dawn are weB
This is the hour of pride and powerD
Talon and tush and clawE
Oh hear the call Good hunting allF
That keep the Jungle LawE
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Mowgli's BrothersG
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His spots are the joy of the Leopard his horns are the Buffalo's prideH
Be clean for the strength of the hunter is known by the gloss of his hideH
If ye find that the bullock can toss you or the heavy browed Sambhur can goreI
Ye need not stop work to inform us We knew it ten seasons beforeI
Oppress not the cubs of the stranger but hail them as Sister and BrotherD
For though they are little and fubsy it may be the Bear is their motherD
There is none like to me says the Cub in the pride of his earliest killJ
Butt the Jungle is large and the Cub he is small Let him think and be stillJ
Kaa's HuntingK
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The stream is shrunk the pool is dryL
And we be comrades thou and IL
With fevered jowl and dusty flankM
Each jostling each along the bankM
And by one drouthy fear made stillJ
Forgoing thought of quest or killJ
Now 'neath his dam the fawn may seeB
The lean Pack wolf as cowed as heB
And the tall buck unflinching noteN
The fangs that tore his father's throatN
The pools are shrunk the streams are dryL
And we be playmates thou and IL
Till yonder cloud Good Hunting looseO
The rain that breaks our Water TruceO
How Fear CameP
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What of the hunting hunter boldQ
Brother the watch was long and coldQ
What of the quarry ye went to killJ
Brother he crops in the jungle stillJ
Where is the power that made your prideH
Brother it ebbs from my flank and sideH
Where is the haste that ye hurry byL
Brother I go to my lair to dieL
Tiger TigerD
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Veil them cover them wall them roundR
Blossom and creeper and weedS
Let us forget the sight and the soundR
The smell and the touch of the breedS
Fat black ash by the altar stoneT
Here is the white foot rainU
And the does bring forth in the fields unsownU
And none shall affright them againU
And the blind walls crumble unknown o'erthrownU
And none shall inhabit againU
Letting in the JungleV
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These are the Four that are never content that have never be filled since the Dews beganU
Jacala's mouth and the glut of the Kite and the hands of the Ape and the Eyes of ManU
The King's AnkusO
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For our white and our excellent nights for the nights of swift runningK
Fair ranging far seeing good hunting sure cunningK
For the smells of the dawning untainted ere dew has departedW
For the rush through the mist and the quarry blind startedW
For the cry of our mates when the sambhur has wheeled and is standing at bayX
For the risk and the riot of nightA
For the sleep at the lair mouth by dayX
It is met and we go to the fightA
Bay O bayX
Red DogY
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Man goes to Man Cry the challenge through the JungleV
He that was our Brother goes awayX
Hear now and judge O ye People of the JungleV
Answer who can turn him who shall stayX
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Man goes to Man He is weeping in the JungleV
He that was our Brother sorrows soreI
Man goes to Man Oh we loved him in the JungleV
To the Man Trail where we may not follow moreI
The Spring RunningK
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At the hole where he went inU
Red Eye called to Wrinkle SkinU
Hear what little Red Eye saithZ
Nag come up and dance with deathZ
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Eye to eye and head to headA2
Keep the measure NagB2
This shall end when one is deadA2
At thy pleasure NagB2
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Turn for turn and twist for twistC2
Run and hide thee NagB2
Hah The hooded Death has missedC2
Woe betide thee NagB2
Rikki Tikki TaviD2
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Oh hush thee my baby the night is behind usO
And black are the waters that sparkled so greenU
The moon o'er the combers looks downward to find usO
At rest in the hollows that rustle betweenU
Where billow meets billow there soft be thy pillowE2
Ah weary wee flipperling curl at thy easeO
The storm shall not wake thee nor shark overtake theeZ
Asleep in the arms of the slow swinging seasO
The White SealF2
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You mustn't swim till you're six weeks oldQ
Or your head will be sunk by your heelsO
And summer gales and Killer WhalesO
Are bad for baby sealsO
Are bad for baby seals dear ratG2
As bad as bad can beZ
But splash and grow strongH2
And you can't be wrongH2
Child of the Open SeaZ
The White SealF2
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I will remember what I was I am sick of rope and chainU
I will remember my old strength and all my forest affairsO
I will not sell my back to man for a bundle of sugarcaneU
I will go out to my own kind and the wood folk in their lairsO
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I will go out until the day until the morning breakI2
Out to the winds' untainted kiss the waters' clean caressO
I will forget my ankle ring and snap my picket stakeI2
I will revisit my lost loves and playmates masterlessO
Toomai of the ElephantsO
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The People of the Eastern Ice they are melting like the snowE2
They beg for coffee and sugar they go where the white men goE2
The People of the Western Ice they learn to steal and fightA
They sell their furs to the trading post they sell their souls to the whiteA
The People of the Southern Ice they trade with the whaler's crewJ2
Their women have many ribbons but their tents are torn and fewJ2
But the People of the Elder Ice beyond the white man's kenU
Their spears are made of the narwhal horn and they are the last of the MenU
QuiquernU
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When ye say to Tabaqui My Brother when ye call the Hyena to meatK2
Ye may cry the Full Truce with Jacala the Belly that runs on four feetK2
The UndertakersO
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The night we felt the earth would moveD2
We stole and plucked him by the handL2
Because we loved him with the loveD2
That knows but cannot understandL2
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And when the roaring hillside brokeM2
And all our world fell down in rainU
We saved him we the Little FolkM2
But lo he does not come againU
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Mourn now we saved him for the sakeI2
Of such poor love as wild ones mayX
Mourn ye Our brother will not wakeI2
And his own kind drive us awayX
The Miracle of Purun BhagatL2

Rudyard Kipling



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