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poet and storyteller who won the Nobel Prize
for Literature in He often wrote aboutliJe
in India, the his birth. He also authored
many boohs.s@_
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Kiplingb poem "The Secret of the Mdchines," published in 1917, is about

t^ technologt and its pitfalls. Told Jrom the perspective of the machines
themselves, it explains how machines cdn serye humanity, and warns the
et & against the dangers oJ misuse. The poem is dividedinto fgv;sJs
of each set has eight lines, and the second
has four lines. The structtffe of the poem is sitnple , with an ABAB fltyme
scheme throughout.
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