Very Many People Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLL IMIN IMCN| On the Downs in the Weald on the Marshes | A |
| I heard the Old Gods say | B |
| Here come Very Many People | C |
| We must go away | B |
| - | |
| They take our land to delight in | D |
| But their delight destroys | E |
| They flay the turf from the sheep walk | F |
| They load the Denes with noise | E |
| - | |
| They burn coal in the woodland | G |
| They seize the oast and the mill | H |
| They camp beside Our dew ponds | I |
| They mar the clean flanked hill | H |
| - | |
| They string a clamorous Magic | J |
| To fence their souls from thought | K |
| Till Our deep breathed Oaks are silent | L |
| And Our muttering Downs tell nought | L |
| - | |
| They comfort themselves with neighbours | I |
| They cannot bide alone | M |
| It shall be best for their doings | I |
| When We Old Gods are gone | N |
| - | |
| Farewell to the Downs and the Marshes | I |
| And the Weald and the Forest known | M |
| Before there were Very Many People | C |
| And the Old Gods had gone | N |
Rudyard Kipling
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