The Legend Of The Foreign Office Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ KKLL KKKK FMMM EEBB| Rajah of Kolazai | A |
| Drinketh the quot simpkin quot and brandy peg | B |
| Maketh the money to fly | C |
| Vexeth a Government tender and kind | D |
| Also but this is a detail blind | D |
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| Rustum Beg of Kolazai slightly backward Native State | E |
| Lusted for a C S I so began to sanitate | E |
| Built a Gaol and Hospital nearly built a City drain | F |
| Till his faithful subjects all thought their ruler was insane | F |
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| Strange departures made he then yea Departments stranger still | G |
| Half a dozen Englishmen helped the Rajah with a will | G |
| Talked of noble aims and high hinted of a future fine | H |
| For the State of Kolazai on a strictly Western line | H |
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| Fajah Rustum held his peace lowered octroi dues a half | I |
| Organised a State Police purified the Civil Staff | I |
| Settled cess and tax aftresh in a very liberal way | J |
| Cut temptations of the flesh also cut the Bukhshi's pay | J |
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| Roused his Secretariat to a fine Mahratta fury | K |
| By an Order hinting at supervision of dasturi | K |
| Turned the State of Kolazai very nearly upside down | L |
| When the end of May was night waited his achievement's crown | L |
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| Then the Birthday Honours came Sad to state and sad to see | K |
| Stood against the Rajah's name nothing more than C I E | K |
| Things were lively for a week in the State of Kolazai | K |
| Even now the people speak of that time regretfully | K |
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| How he disendowed the Gaol stopped at once the City drain | F |
| Turned to beauty fair and frail got his senses back again | M |
| Doubled taxes cesses all cleared away each new built thana | M |
| Turned the two lakh Hospital into a superb Zenana | M |
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| Heaped upon the Bukshi Sahib wealth and honours manifold | E |
| Glad himself in Eastern garb squeezed his people as of old | E |
| Happy happy Kolazai Never more will Rustum Beg | B |
| Play to catch his Viceroy's eye He prefers the quot simpkin quot peg | B |
Rudyard Kipling
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