The Lament Of The Border Cattle Thief Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD BDBD ECEC FDFD GDGD BBBB CDCD HBCB EBEB DCDC IDID| O woe is me for the merry life | A |
| I led beyond the Bar | B |
| And a treble woe for my winsome wife | A |
| That weeps at Shalimar | B |
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| They have taken away my long jezail | C |
| My shield and sabre fine | D |
| And heaved me into the Central jail | C |
| For lifting of the kine | D |
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| The steer may low within the byre | B |
| The Jat may tend his grain | D |
| But there'll be neither loot nor fire | B |
| Till I come back again | D |
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| And God have mercy on the Jat | E |
| When once my fetters fall | C |
| And Heaven defend the farmer's hut | E |
| When I am loosed from thrall | C |
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| It's woe to bend the stubborn back | F |
| Above the grinching quern | D |
| It's woe to hear the leg bar clack | F |
| And jingle when I turn | D |
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| But for the sorrow and the shame | G |
| The brand on me and mine | D |
| I'll pay you back in leaping flame | G |
| And loss of the butchered kine | D |
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| For every cow I spared before | B |
| In charity set free | B |
| If I may reach my hold once more | B |
| I'll reive an honest three | B |
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| For every time I raised the low | C |
| That scared the dusty plain | D |
| By sword and cord by torch and tow | C |
| I'll light the land with twain | D |
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| Ride hard ride hard to Abazai | H |
| Young Sahib with the yellow hair | B |
| Lie close lie close as khuttucks lie | C |
| Fat herds below Bonair | B |
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| The one I'll shoot at twilight tide | E |
| At dawn I'll drive the other | B |
| The black shall mourn for hoof and hide | E |
| The white man for his brother | B |
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| 'Tis war red war I'll give you then | D |
| War till my sinews fail | C |
| For the wrong you have done to a chief of men | D |
| And a thief of the Zukka Kheyl | C |
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| And if I fall to your hand afresh | I |
| I give you leave for the sin | D |
| That you cram my throat with the foul pig's flesh | I |
| And swing me in the skin | D |
Rudyard Kipling
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