What Happened Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DDBB BBBB EEFF GGHB BBII JJBA FFFA KKBB LLBB FFAA AAFF| Hurree Chunder Mookerjee pride of Bow Bazaar | A |
| Owner of a native press quot Barrishter at Lar quot | B |
| Waited on the Government with a claim to wear | C |
| Sabres by the bucketful rifles by the pair | C |
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| Then the Indian Government winked a wicked wink | D |
| Said to Chunder Mookerjee quot Stick to pen and ink | D |
| They are safer implements but if you insist | B |
| We will let you carry arms wheresoe'er you list quot | B |
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| Hurree Chunder Mookerjee sought the gunsmith and | B |
| Bought the tubes of Lancaster Ballard Dean and Bland | B |
| Bought a shiny bowie knife bought a town made sword | B |
| Jingled like a carriage horse when he went abroad | B |
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| But the Indian Government always keen to please | E |
| Also gave permission to horrid men like these | E |
| Yar Mahommed Yusufzai down to kill or steal | F |
| Chimbu Singh from Bikaneer Tantia the Bhil | F |
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| Killar Khan the Marri chief Jowar Singh the Sikh | G |
| Nubbee Baksh Punjabi Jat Abdul Huq Rafiq | G |
| He was a Wahabi last little Boh Hla oo | H |
| Took advantage of the Act took a Snider too | B |
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| They were unenlightened men Ballard knew them not | B |
| They procured their swords and guns chiefly on the spot | B |
| And the lore of centuries plus a hundred fights | I |
| Made them slow to disregard one another's rights | I |
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| With a unanimity dear to patriot hearts | J |
| All those hairy gentlemen out of foreign parts | J |
| Said quot The good old days are back let us go to war quot | B |
| Swaggered down the Grand Trunk Road into Bow Bazaar | A |
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| Nubbee Baksh Punjabi Jat found a hide bound flail | F |
| Chimbu Singh from Bikaneer oiled his Tonk jezail | F |
| Yar Mahommed Yusufzai spat and grinned with glee | F |
| As he ground the butcher knife of the Khyberee | A |
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| Jowar Singh the Sikh procured sabre quoit and mace | K |
| Abdul Huq Wahabi jerked his dagger from its place | K |
| While amid the jungle grass danced and grinned and jabbered | B |
| Little Boh Hla oo and cleared his dah blade from the scabbard | B |
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| What became of Mookerjee Smoothly who can say | L |
| Yar Mahommed only grins in a nasty way | L |
| Jowar Singh is reticent Chimbu Singh is mute | B |
| But the belts of all of them simply bulge with loot | B |
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| What became of Ballard's guns Afghans black and grubby | F |
| Sell them for their silver weight to the men of Pubbi | F |
| And the shiny bowie knife and the town made sword are | A |
| Hanging in a Marri camp just across the Border | A |
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| What became of Mookerjee Ask Mahommed Yar | A |
| Prodding Siva's sacred bull down the Bow Bazaar | A |
| Speak to placid Nubbee Baksh question land and sea | F |
| Ask the Indian Congressmen only don't ask me | F |
Rudyard Kipling
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