Karenge Ya Marenge Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EEFFGG| Wherein are words sublime or noble What | A |
| Invests one speech with haloed eminence | B |
| Makes it the sesame for all doors shut | A |
| Yet in its like sees but impertinence | B |
| Is it the hue Is it the cast of eye | C |
| The curve of lip or Asiatic breath | D |
| Which mark a lesser place for Gandhi s cry | C |
| Than Give me liberty or give me death | D |
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| Is Indian speech so quaint so weak so rude | E |
| So like its land enslaved denied and crude | E |
| That men who claim they fight for liberty | F |
| Can hear this battle shout impassively | F |
| Yet to their arms with high resolve have sprung | G |
| At those same words cried in the English tongue | G |
Countee Cullen
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