The Kosa Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGGHIJJKKLL MMFFJJFFNNOOPPQQFF QQFFFFNNFFRRNN| The free born Kosa still doth hold | A |
| The fields his fathers held of old | A |
| With club and spear in jocund ranks | B |
| Still hunts the elk by Chumi's banks | B |
| By Keisi's meads his herds are lowing | C |
| On Deb 's slopes his gardens glowing | C |
| Where laughing maids at sunset roam | D |
| To bear the juicy melons home | D |
| And striplings from Kalumna's wood | E |
| Bring wild grapes and the pigeon's brood | F |
| With fragrant hoard of honey bee | G |
| Rifled from the hollow tree | G |
| And herdsmen shout from rock to rock | H |
| And through the glen the hamlets smoke | I |
| And children gambol round the kraal | J |
| To greet their sires at evening fall | J |
| And matrons sweep the cabin floor | K |
| And spread the mat beside the door | K |
| And with dry fagots wake the flame | L |
| To dress the wearied huntsmen's game | L |
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| Bright gleams the fire its ruddy blaze | M |
| On many a dusky visage plays | M |
| On fork d twigs the game is drest | F |
| The neighbours share the simple feast | F |
| The honey mead the millet ale | J |
| Flow round and flow the jest and tale | J |
| Wild legends of the ancient day | F |
| Of hunting feat of warlike fray | F |
| And now come smiles and now come sighs | N |
| As mirth and grief alternate rise | N |
| Or should a sterner strain awake | O |
| Like sudden flame in summer brake | O |
| Bursts fiercely forth in battle song | P |
| The tale of Amak sa's wrong | P |
| Throbs every warrior bosom high | Q |
| With lightning flashes every eye | Q |
| And in wild cadence rings the sound | F |
| Of barb d javelins clashing round | F |
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| But lo like a broad shield on high | Q |
| The moon gleams in the midnight sky | Q |
| 'Tis time to part the watch dog's bay | F |
| Beside the folds has died away | F |
| 'Tis time to rest the mat is spread | F |
| The hardy hunter's simple bed | F |
| His wife her dreaming infant hushes | N |
| On the low cabin's couch of rushes | N |
| Softly he draws its door of hide | F |
| And stretched by his Gul wi's side | F |
| Sleeps soundly till the peep of dawn | R |
| Wakes on the hills the dappled fawn | R |
| Then forth again he gaily bounds | N |
| With club and spear and questing hounds | N |
Thomas Pringle
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