South Africa Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCCB CBDDDB EAFFFA BBDDDB FGFFFF FBHHIB JKLLLL BGLLLG FFFFFF GBDDDB| Lived a woman wonderful | A |
| May the Lord amend her | B |
| Neither simple kind nor true | C |
| But her Pagan beauty drew | C |
| Christian gentlemen a few | C |
| Hotly to attend her | B |
| - | |
| Christian gentlemen a few | C |
| From Berwick unto Dover | B |
| For she was South Africa | D |
| Ana she was South Africa | D |
| She was Our South Africa | D |
| Africa all over | B |
| - | |
| Half her land was dead with drouth | E |
| Half was red with battle | A |
| She was fenced with fire and sword | F |
| Plague on pestilence outpoured | F |
| Locusts on the greening sward | F |
| And murrain on the cattle | A |
| - | |
| True ah true and overtrue | B |
| That is why we love her | B |
| For she is South Africa | D |
| And she is South Africa | D |
| She is Our South Africa | D |
| Africa all over | B |
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| Bitter hard her lovers toild | F |
| Scandalous their paymen | G |
| Food forgot on trains derailed | F |
| Cattle dung where fuel failed | F |
| Water where the mules had staled | F |
| And sackcloth for their raiment | F |
| - | |
| So she filled their mouths with dust | F |
| And their bones with fever | B |
| Greeted them with cruel lies | H |
| Treated them despiteful wise | H |
| Meted them calamities | I |
| Till they vowed to leave her | B |
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| They took ship and they took sail | J |
| Raging from her borders | K |
| In a little none the less | L |
| They forgat their sore duresse | L |
| They forgave her waywardness | L |
| And returned for orders | L |
| - | |
| They esteemed her favour more | B |
| Than a Throne's foundation | G |
| For the glory of her face | L |
| Bade farewell to breed and race | L |
| Yea and made their burial place | L |
| Altar of a Nation | G |
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| Wherefore being bought by blood | F |
| And by blood restored | F |
| To the arms that nearly lost | F |
| She because of all she cost | F |
| Stands a very woman most | F |
| Perfect and adored | F |
| - | |
| On your feet and let them know | G |
| This is why we love her | B |
| For she is South Africa | D |
| She is Our South Africa | D |
| Is Our Own South Africa | D |
| Africa all over | B |
Rudyard Kipling
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