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The Kosa Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGGHIJJKKLL MMFFJJFFNNOOPPQQFF QQFFFFNNFFRRNN

The free born Kosa still doth holdA
The fields his fathers held of oldA
With club and spear in jocund ranksB
Still hunts the elk by Chumi's banksB
By Keisi's meads his herds are lowingC
On Deb 's slopes his gardens glowingC
Where laughing maids at sunset roamD
To bear the juicy melons homeD
And striplings from Kalumna's woodE
Bring wild grapes and the pigeon's broodF
With fragrant hoard of honey beeG
Rifled from the hollow treeG
And herdsmen shout from rock to rockH
And through the glen the hamlets smokeI
And children gambol round the kraalJ
To greet their sires at evening fallJ
And matrons sweep the cabin floorK
And spread the mat beside the doorK
And with dry fagots wake the flameL
To dress the wearied huntsmen's gameL
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Bright gleams the fire its ruddy blazeM
On many a dusky visage playsM
On fork d twigs the game is drestF
The neighbours share the simple feastF
The honey mead the millet aleJ
Flow round and flow the jest and taleJ
Wild legends of the ancient dayF
Of hunting feat of warlike frayF
And now come smiles and now come sighsN
As mirth and grief alternate riseN
Or should a sterner strain awakeO
Like sudden flame in summer brakeO
Bursts fiercely forth in battle songP
The tale of Amak sa's wrongP
Throbs every warrior bosom highQ
With lightning flashes every eyeQ
And in wild cadence rings the soundF
Of barb d javelins clashing roundF
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But lo like a broad shield on highQ
The moon gleams in the midnight skyQ
'Tis time to part the watch dog's bayF
Beside the folds has died awayF
'Tis time to rest the mat is spreadF
The hardy hunter's simple bedF
His wife her dreaming infant hushesN
On the low cabin's couch of rushesN
Softly he draws its door of hideF
And stretched by his Gul wi's sideF
Sleeps soundly till the peep of dawnR
Wakes on the hills the dappled fawnR
Then forth again he gaily boundsN
With club and spear and questing houndsN

Thomas Pringle



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