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

IA
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This is the sorrowful storyB
Told when the twilight failsC
And the monkeys walk togetherD
Holding their neighbours' tailsC
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quot Our fathers lived in the forestE
Foolish people were theyF
They went down to the cornlandE
To teach the farmers to playF
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quot Our fathers frisked in the milletE
Our fathers skipped in the wheatE
Our fathers hung from the branchesG
Our fathers danced in the streetE
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quot Then came the terrible farmersH
Nothing of play they knewI
Only they caught our fathersH
And set them to labour tooI
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quot Set them to work in the cornlandI
With ploughs and sickles and flailsH
Put them in mud walled prisonsH
And cut off their beautiful tailsH
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quot Now we can watch our fathersH
Sullen and bowed and oldI
Stooping over the milletI
Sharing the silly mouldI
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quot Driving a foolish furrowJ
Mending a muddy yokeK
Sleeping in mud walled prisonsH
Steeping their food in smokeK
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quot We may not speak to our fathersH
For if the farmers knewI
They would come up to the forestI
And set us to labour too quotI
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This is the horrible storyB
Told as the twilight failsH
And the monkeys walk togetherD
Holding their kinsmen's tailsH
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IIA
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'Twas when the rain fell steady an' the Ark was pitched an' readyB
That Noah got his orders for to take the bastes belowJ
He dragged them all together by the horn an' hide an' featherD
An' all excipt the Donkey was agreeable to goJ
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Thin Noah spoke him fairly thin talked to him sevarelyJ
An' thin he cursed him squarely to the glory av the LordI
quot Divil take the ass that bred you and the greater ass that fed youI
Divil go wid you ye spalpeen quot an' the Donkey went aboardI
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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 airL
An' the bastes betwuxt the hatches they tuk an' died in batchesH
Till Noah said quot There's wan av us that hasn't paid his fare quotI
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For he heard a flusteration 'mid the bastes av all creationI
The trumpetin' av elephints an' bellowin' av whalesH
An' he saw forninst the windy whin he wint to stop the shindyI
The Divil wid a stable fork bedivillin' their tailsH
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The Divil cursed outrageous but Noah said umbrageousH
quot To what am I indebted for this tenant right invasion quotI
An' the Divil gave for answer quot Evict me if you can sirD
For I came in wid the Donkey on Your Honour's invitation quotI

Rudyard Kipling



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