Female of the Species the Species", which has as its refrain: "The female of the species is more deadly than the male". In one instance Kipling uses the word "deadlier"; the song replaces that word with the phrase "more deadly". Female of the Species "Female of the Species" is a song by the English rock band Space, released as their fourth single, and second single proper from their debut album "Spiders" on 27 May 1996, reaching #14 in the UK charts. It was the band's only entry on any music chart in the U.S. when it peaked at #15 on the Hot Modern Rock
The Rhyming Poem The poet may have taken Book of Job, chapters 29 and 30, as its inspiration. The Rhyming Poem "The Rhyming Poem", also written as "The Riming Poem", is a poem of 87 lines found in the Exeter Book, a tenth-century collection of Old English poetry. It is remarkable for being no later than the 10th century, in Old English, and written in rhyming couplets. Rhyme is otherwise virtually unknown among Anglo-Saxon literature, which used alliterative verse instead. The poem is found on folios 94r-95v, in the third booklet of the Exeter Book, which may, or may not, be an indication