Darzee's Chount
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
Sung in honor of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Singer and tailor am I--
Doubled the joys that I know--
Proud of my lilt to the sky,
Proud of the house that I sew--
Over and under, so weave I my music--so weave I the house that
I sew.
Sing to your fledglings again,
Mother, O lift up your head!
Evil that plagued us is slain,
Death in the garden lies dead.
Terror that hid in the roses is impotent--flung on the dung-hill
and dead!
Who hath delivered us, who?
Tell me his nest and his name.
Rikki, the valiant, the true,
Tikki, with eyeballs of flame,
Rik-tikki-tikki, the ivory-fanged, the Hunter with eyeballs of
flame.
Give him the Thanks of the Birds,
Bowing with tail-feathers spread!
Praise him in nightingale-words--
Nay, I will praise him instead.
I will sing you the praise of the bottle-tailed Rikki with
eyeballs of red!
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | A BCBCXC XDXDXD EFEFAF GDGDXD |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 802 |
Words | 149 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
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