The Frontier Line Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEBA AFBBGG FA ABGGFFHB AGIIJJHGJ KLGGMMLL| What marks the frontier line | A |
| Thou man of India say | B |
| Is it the Himalayas sheer | C |
| The rocks and valleys of Cashmere | C |
| Or Indus as she seeks the south | D |
| From Attoch to the fivefold mouth | D |
| 'Not that Not that ' | E |
| Then answer me I pray | B |
| What marks the frontier line | A |
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| What marks the frontier line | A |
| Thou man of Burmah speak | F |
| Is it traced from Mandalay | B |
| And down the marches of Cathay | B |
| From Bhamo south to Kiang mai | G |
| And where the buried rubies lie | G |
| 'Not that Not that ' | - |
| Then tell me what I seek | F |
| What marks the frontier line | A |
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| What marks the frontier line | A |
| Thou Africander say | B |
| Is it shown by Zulu kraal | G |
| By Drakensberg or winding Vaal | G |
| Or where the Shire waters seek | F |
| Their outlet east at Mozambique | F |
| 'Not that Not that | H |
| There is a surer way | B |
| To mark the frontier line ' | - |
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| What marks the frontier line | A |
| Thou man of Egypt tell | G |
| Is it traced on Luxor's sand | I |
| Where Karnak's painted pillars stand | I |
| Or where the river runs between | J |
| The Ethiop and Bishareen | J |
| 'Not that Not that | H |
| By neither stream nor well | G |
| We mark the frontier line | J |
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| 'But be it east or west | K |
| One common sign we bear | L |
| The tongue may change the soil the sky | G |
| But where your British brothers lie | G |
| The lonely cairn the nameless grave | M |
| Still fringe the flowing Saxon wave | M |
| 'Tis that 'Tis where | L |
| THEY lie the men who placed it there | L |
| That marks the frontier line ' | - |
Arthur Conan Doyle
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