Our Lady Of The Snows Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBADEF GHIHEFIF IJKJEFLF IEMEEFIF NOPOIFIF ABCBADCF| A nation spoke to a Nation | A |
| A Queen sent word to a Throne | B |
| Daughter am I in my mother's house | C |
| But mistress in my own | B |
| The gates are mine to open | A |
| As the gates are mine to close | D |
| And I set my house in order | E |
| Said our Lady of the Snows | F |
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| Neither with laughter nor weeping | G |
| Fear or the child's amaze | H |
| Soberly under the White Man's law | I |
| My white men go their ways | H |
| Not for the Gentiles' clamour | E |
| Insult or threat of blows | F |
| Bow we the knee to Baal | I |
| Said our Lady of the Snows | F |
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| My speech is clean and single | I |
| I talk of common things | J |
| Words of the wharf and the market place | K |
| And the ware the merchant brings | J |
| Favour to those I favour | E |
| But a stumbling block to my foes | F |
| Many there be that hate us | L |
| Said our Lady of the Snows | F |
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| I called my chiefs to council | I |
| In the din of a troubled year | E |
| For the sake of a sign ye would not see | M |
| And a word ye would not hear | E |
| This is our message and answer | E |
| This is the path we chose | F |
| For we be also a people | I |
| Said our Lady of the Snows | F |
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| Carry the word to my sisters | N |
| To the Queens of the East and the South | O |
| I have proven faith in the Heritage | P |
| By more than the word of the mouth | O |
| They that are wise may follow | I |
| Ere the world's war trumpet blows | F |
| But I I am first in the battle | I |
| Said our Lady of the Snows | F |
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| A Nation spoke to a Nation | A |
| A Throne sent word to a Throne | B |
| Daughter am I in my mother's house | C |
| But mistress in my own | B |
| The gates are mine to open | A |
| As the gates are mine to close | D |
| And I abide by my Mother's House | C |
| Said our Lady of the Snows | F |
Rudyard Kipling
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