The Caffer Commando Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFFGGHHIJ KKLLMMNNOO| Hark heard ye the signals of triumph afar | A |
| 'Tis our Caffer Commando returning from war | B |
| The voice of their laughter comes loud on the wind | C |
| Nor heed they the curses that follow behind | C |
| For who cares for him the poor Kosa that wails | D |
| Where the smoke rises dim from yon desolate vales | D |
| That wails for his little ones killed in the fray | E |
| And his herds by the Colonist carried away | E |
| Or who cares for him that once pastured this spot | F |
| Where his tribe is extinct and their story forgot | F |
| As many another ere twenty years pass | G |
| Will only be known by their bones in the grass | G |
| And the sons of the Keisi the Kei the Gareep | H |
| With the Gunja and Ghona in silence shall sleep | H |
| For England hath spoken in her tyrannous mood | I |
| And the edict is writing in African blood | J |
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| Dark Katta is howling the eager jackall | K |
| As the lengthening shadows more drearily fall | K |
| Shrieks forth his hymn to the horn d moon | L |
| And the lord of the desert will follow him soon | L |
| And the tiger wolf laughs in his bone strewed brake | M |
| As he calls on his mate and her cubs to awake | M |
| And the panther and leopard come leaping along | N |
| All hymning to Hecate a festival song | N |
| For the tumult is over the slaughter hath ceased | O |
| And the vulture hath bidden them all to the feast | O |
Thomas Pringle
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