The Runners Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFE AEGAE E AEHAE E ABAAE E AIEAAABEE E| News | A |
| What is the word that they tell now now now | B |
| The little drums beating in the bazaars | C |
| They beat among the buyers and the sellers | D |
| 'Nimrud ah Nimrud | E |
| God tends a gnat against Nimrud ' | F |
| Watchers O Watchers a thousand | E |
| - | |
| News | A |
| At the edge of the crops now now where the well wheels are halted | E |
| One prepares to loose the bullocks and one scrapes his hoe | G |
| They beat among the Bowers and the reapers | A |
| 'Nimrud ah Nimrud | E |
| God prepares an ill day far Nimrud ' | - |
| Watchers O Watchers ten thousand | E |
| - | |
| News | A |
| By the fires of the camps now now where the travellers meet | E |
| Where the camels come in and the horses their men conferring | H |
| They beat among the packmen and the drivers | A |
| 'Nimrud ah Nimrud | E |
| Thus it befell last noon to Nimrud ' | - |
| Watchers O Watchers an hundred thousand | E |
| - | |
| News | A |
| Under the shadow of the border peels now now now | B |
| In the rocks of the passes where the expectant shoe their horses | A |
| They beat among the rifles and the riders | A |
| 'Nimrud ah Nimrud | E |
| Shall we go up against Nimrud ' | - |
| Watchers O Watchers a thousand thousand | E |
| - | |
| News | A |
| Bring out the heaps of grain open the account books again | I |
| Drive forward the well bullocks against the taxable harvest | E |
| Eat and lie under the trees pitch the police guarded fair grounds O dancers | A |
| Hide away the rifles and let down the ladders from the watch towers | A |
| They beat among all the peoples | A |
| 'Now now now | B |
| God has reserved the Sword for Nimrud | E |
| God has given Victory to Nimrud | E |
| Let us abide under Nimrud ' | - |
| O Well disposed and Heedful an hundred thousand thousand | E |
Rudyard Kipling
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