Dedication Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDEDB FGFG HIHIHI JBJBJB KBKBKB ALAB MBMBMB NONO BPBPPEEP| To the City of Bombay | A |
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| The Cities are full of pride | B |
| Challenging each to each | C |
| This from her mountain side | B |
| That from her burthened beach | C |
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| They count their ships full tale | D |
| Their corn and oil and wine | E |
| Derrick and loom and bale | D |
| And rampart's gun flecked line | E |
| City by City they hail | D |
| quot Hast aught to match with mine quot | B |
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| And the men that breed from them | F |
| They traffic up and down | G |
| But cling to their cities' hem | F |
| As a child to their mother's gown | G |
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| When they talk with the stranger bands | H |
| Dazed and newly alone | I |
| When they walk in the stranger lands | H |
| By roaring streets unknown | I |
| Blessing her where she stands | H |
| For strength above their own | I |
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| On high to hold her fame | J |
| That stands all fame beyond | B |
| By oath to back the same | J |
| Most faithful foolish fond | B |
| Making her mere breathed name | J |
| Their bond upon their bond | B |
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| So thank I God my birth | K |
| Fell not in isles aside | B |
| Waste headlands of the earth | K |
| Or warring tribes untried | B |
| But that she lent me worth | K |
| And gave me right to pride | B |
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| Surely in toil or fray | A |
| Under an alien sky | L |
| Comfort it is to say | A |
| quot Of no mean city am I quot | B |
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| Neither by service nor fee | M |
| Come I to mine estate | B |
| Mother of Cities to me | M |
| For I was born in her gate | B |
| Between the palms and the sea | M |
| Where the world end steamers wait | B |
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| Now for this debt I owe | N |
| And for her far borne cheer | O |
| Must I make haste and go | N |
| With tribute to her pier | O |
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| And she shall touch and remit | B |
| After the use of kings | P |
| Orderly ancient fit | B |
| My deep sea plunderings | P |
| And purchase in all lands | P |
| And this we do for a sign | E |
| Her power is over mine | E |
| And mine I hold at her hands | P |
Rudyard Kipling
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