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Article: Kipling's use of verse and prose in "Baa Baa, Black Sheep." (Rudyard Kipling)
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- Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
- Article date:
- September 22, 1997
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Although Rudyard Kipling professed that he did not particularly consider himself a poet,(1) his fictions persistently draw on his mastery of English poetry to convey meanings that complicate his prose. Whether of Kipling's own making or borrowed from others, verses lace Kipling's prose from the shortest tales to novel-length works. Epigraphs, quotations, and closing couplets can provide alternative insights, foreshadowings, and codas to the stories themselves. Lyrical fragments - sometimes Kipling's own, sometimes quoted or, perhaps deliberately, misquoted - often give the lie to an ostensible prose point, render a "moral" debatable and troubling, or embed themselves in a ...
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Dictionary definition: Baa Baa Black Sheep
A Dictionary of English Folklore;
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...Baa Baa Black Sheep. One of the most widely known of our nursery rhymes whose somewhat oblique words and simple tune have been used as a lullaby and ...
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