The Legend Of Evil Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFEF EEGE HIHI IHHH HIII JKHK HIII BHDH A BJDJ JIII ILHI IHIH HIDII | A |
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This is the sorrowful story | B |
Told when the twilight fails | C |
And the monkeys walk together | D |
Holding their neighbours' tails | C |
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quot Our fathers lived in the forest | E |
Foolish people were they | F |
They went down to the cornland | E |
To teach the farmers to play | F |
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quot Our fathers frisked in the millet | E |
Our fathers skipped in the wheat | E |
Our fathers hung from the branches | G |
Our fathers danced in the street | E |
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quot Then came the terrible farmers | H |
Nothing of play they knew | I |
Only they caught our fathers | H |
And set them to labour too | I |
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quot Set them to work in the cornland | I |
With ploughs and sickles and flails | H |
Put them in mud walled prisons | H |
And cut off their beautiful tails | H |
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quot Now we can watch our fathers | H |
Sullen and bowed and old | I |
Stooping over the millet | I |
Sharing the silly mould | I |
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quot Driving a foolish furrow | J |
Mending a muddy yoke | K |
Sleeping in mud walled prisons | H |
Steeping their food in smoke | K |
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quot We may not speak to our fathers | H |
For if the farmers knew | I |
They would come up to the forest | I |
And set us to labour too quot | I |
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This is the horrible story | B |
Told as the twilight fails | H |
And the monkeys walk together | D |
Holding their kinsmen's tails | H |
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II | A |
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'Twas when the rain fell steady an' the Ark was pitched an' ready | B |
That Noah got his orders for to take the bastes below | J |
He dragged them all together by the horn an' hide an' feather | D |
An' all excipt the Donkey was agreeable to go | J |
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Thin Noah spoke him fairly thin talked to him sevarely | J |
An' thin he cursed him squarely to the glory av the Lord | I |
quot Divil take the ass that bred you and the greater ass that fed you | I |
Divil go wid you ye spalpeen quot an' the Donkey went aboard | I |
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But the wind was always failin' an' 'twas most onaisy sailin' | I |
An' the ladies in the cabin couldn't stand the stable air | L |
An' the bastes betwuxt the hatches they tuk an' died in batches | H |
Till Noah said quot There's wan av us that hasn't paid his fare quot | I |
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For he heard a flusteration 'mid the bastes av all creation | I |
The trumpetin' av elephints an' bellowin' av whales | H |
An' he saw forninst the windy whin he wint to stop the shindy | I |
The Divil wid a stable fork bedivillin' their tails | H |
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The Divil cursed outrageous but Noah said umbrageous | H |
quot To what am I indebted for this tenant right invasion quot | I |
An' the Divil gave for answer quot Evict me if you can sir | D |
For I came in wid the Donkey on Your Honour's invitation quot | I |
Rudyard Kipling
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