The Only Son Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FFGGHIJJKK LLML JJ| She dropped the bar she shot the bolt she fed the fire anew | A |
| For she heard a whimper under the sill and a great grey paw came through | A |
| The fresh flame comforted the hut and shone on the roof beam | B |
| And the Only Son lay down again and dreamed that he dreamed a dream | B |
| The last ash fell from the withered log with the click of a falling spark | C |
| And the Only Son woke up again and called across the dark | C |
| quot Now was I born of womankind and laid in a mother's breast | D |
| For I have dreamed of a shaggy hide whereon I went to rest | D |
| And was I born of womankind and laid on a father's arm | E |
| For I have dreamed of clashing teeth that guarded me from harm | E |
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| And was I born an Only Son and did I play alone | F |
| For I have dreamed of comrades twain that bit me to the bone | F |
| And did I break the barley cake and steep it in the tyre | G |
| For I have dreamed of a youngling kid new riven from the byre | G |
| For I have dreamed of a midnight sky and a midnight call to blood | H |
| And red mouthed shadows racing by that thrust me from my food | I |
| 'Tis an hour yet and an hour yet to the rising of the moon | J |
| But I can see the black roof tree as plain as it were noon | J |
| 'Tis a league and a league to the Lena Falls where the trooping blackbuck go | K |
| But I can hear the little fawn that bleats behind the doe | K |
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| 'Tis a league and a league to the Lena Falls where the crop and the upland meet | L |
| But I Can smell the wet dawn wind that wakes the sprouting wheat | L |
| Unbar the door I may not bide but I must out and see | M |
| If those are wolves that wait outside or my own kin to me quot | L |
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| She loosed the bar she slid the bolt she opened the door anon | J |
| And a grey bitch wolf came out of the dark and fawned on the Only Son | J |
Rudyard Kipling
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