The Birthright Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BBBCDDEEFFGGBBBBBBHH IIBB| The miracle of our land's speech so known | A |
| And long received none marvel when 'tis shown | A |
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| We have such wealth as Rome at her most pride | B |
| Had not or having scattered not so wide | B |
| Nor with such arrant prodigality | B |
| Beneath her any pagan's foot let lie | C |
| Lo Diamond that cost some half their days | D |
| To find and t'other half to bring to blaze | D |
| Rubies of every heat wherethrough we scan | E |
| The fiercer and more fiery heart of man | E |
| Emerald that with the uplifted billow vies | F |
| And Sapphires evening remembered skies | F |
| Pearl perfect as immortal tears must show | G |
| Bred in deep waters of a piercing woe | G |
| And tender Turkis so with charms y writ | B |
| Of woven gold Time dares not bite on it | B |
| Thereafter in all manners worked and set | B |
| Jade coral amber crystal ivories jet | B |
| Showing no more than various fancies yet | B |
| Each a Life's token or Love's amulet | B |
| Which things through timeless arrogance of use | H |
| We neither guard nor garner but abuse | H |
| So that our scholars nay our children fling | I |
| In sport or jest treasure to arm a King | I |
| And the gross crowd at feast or market hold | B |
| Traffic perforce with dust of gems and gold | B |
Rudyard Kipling
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