The Totem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CAAD AEAF AGAG HBHB AIAI| Ere the mother's milk had dried | A |
| On my lips the Brethren came | B |
| Tore me from my nurse's side | A |
| And bestowed on me a name | B |
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| Infamously overtrue | C |
| Such as quot Bunny quot quot Stinker quot quot Podge quot | A |
| But whatever I should do | A |
| Mine for ever in the Lodge | D |
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| Then they taught with palm and toe | A |
| Then I learned with yelps and tears | E |
| All the Armoured Man should know | A |
| Through his Seven Secret Years | F |
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| Last oppressing as oppressed | A |
| I was loosed to go my ways | G |
| With a Totem on my breast | A |
| Governing my nights and days | G |
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| Ancient and unbribeable | H |
| By the virtue of its Name | B |
| Which however oft I fell | H |
| Lashed me back into The Game | B |
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| And the World that never knew | A |
| Saw no more beneath my chin | I |
| Than a patch of rainbow hue | A |
| Mixed as Life and crude as Sin | I |
Rudyard Kipling
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