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 HIDI| I | 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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