The Plea Of The Simla Dancers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEC FGFHIHI JKLKMMMM MNMNMOMP QOQOMRMR MMMMSMSM TTTTUOUP| Too late alas the song | A |
| To remedy the wrong | A |
| The rooms are taken from us swept and | B |
| garnished for their fate | C |
| But these tear besprinkled pages | D |
| Shall attest to future ages | D |
| That we cried against the crime of it | E |
| too late alas too late | C |
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| 'What have we ever done to bear this grudge ' | - |
| Was there no room save only in Benmore | F |
| For docket duftar and for office drudge | G |
| That you usurp our smoothest dancing floor | F |
| Must babus do their work on polished teak | H |
| Are ball rooms fittest for the ink you spill | I |
| Was there no other cheaper house to seek | H |
| You might have left them all at Strawberry Hill | I |
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| We never harmed you Innocent our guise | J |
| Dainty our shining feet our voices low | K |
| And we revolved to divers melodies | L |
| And we were happy but a year ago | K |
| To night the moon that watched our lightsome wiles | M |
| That beamed upon us through the deodars | M |
| Is wan with gazing on official files | M |
| And desecrating desks disgust the stars | M |
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| Nay by the memory of tuneful nights | M |
| Nay by the witchery of flying feet | N |
| Nay by the glamour of foredone delights | M |
| By all things merry musical and meet | N |
| By wine that sparkled and by sparkling eyes | M |
| By wailing waltz by reckless gallop's strain | O |
| By dim verandas and by soft replies | M |
| Give us our ravished ball room back again | P |
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| Or hearken to the curse we lay on you | Q |
| The ghosts of waltzes shall perplex your brain | O |
| And murmurs of past merriment pursue | Q |
| Your 'wildered clerks that they indite in vain | O |
| And when you count your poor Provincial millions | M |
| The only figures that your pen shall frame | R |
| Shall be the figures of dear dear cotillions | M |
| Danced out in tumult long before you came | R |
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| Yea 'See Saw' shall upset your estimates | M |
| 'Dream Faces' shall your heavy heads bemuse | M |
| Because your hand unheeding desecrates | M |
| Our temple fit for higher worthier use | M |
| And all the long verandas eloquent | S |
| With echoes of a score of Simla years | M |
| Shall plague you with unbidden sentiment | S |
| Babbling of kisses laughter love and tears | M |
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| So shall you mazed amid old memories stand | T |
| So shall you toil and shall accomplish nought | T |
| And ever in your ears a phantom Band | T |
| Shall blare away the staid official thought | T |
| Wherefore and ere this awful curse he spoken | U |
| Cast out your swarthy sacrilegious train | O |
| And give ere dancing cease and hearts be broken | U |
| Give us our ravished ball room back again | P |
Rudyard Kipling
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