Letting in the Jungle

Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)



Veil them, cover them, wall them round--
Blossom, and creeper, and weed--
Let us forget the sight and the sound,
The smell and the touch of the breed!
Fat black ash by the altar-stone,
Here is the white-foot rain
And the does bring forth in the fields unsown,
And none shall affright them again;
And the blind walls crumble, unknown, o'erthrown,
And none shall inhabit again!

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABABCDCECE
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 374
Words 68
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10

Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist chiefly remembered for his tales and poems of British soldiers in India and his tales for children. more…

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