The Heritage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDF GHIHJKJK LMLNOPOP QIQIRSRS TUTUVWNW| Our Fathers in a wondrous age | A |
| Ere yet the Earth was small | B |
| Ensured to us a heritage | C |
| And doubted not at all | B |
| That we the children of their heart | D |
| Which then did beat so high | E |
| In later rime should play like part | D |
| For our posterity | F |
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| A thousand years they steadfast built | G |
| To 'vantage us and ours | H |
| The Walls that were a world's despair | I |
| The sea constraining Towers | H |
| Yet in their midmost pride they knew | J |
| And unto Kings made known | K |
| Not all from these their strength they drew | J |
| Their faith from brass or stone | K |
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| Youth's passion manhood's fierce intent | L |
| With age's judgment wise | M |
| They spent and counted not they spent | L |
| At daily sacrifice | N |
| Not lambs alone nor purchased doves | O |
| Or tithe of trader's gold | P |
| Their lives most dear their dearer loves | O |
| They offered up of old | P |
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| Refraining e'en from lawful things | Q |
| They bowed the neck to bear | I |
| The unadorned yoke that brings | Q |
| Stark toil and sternest care | I |
| Wherefore through them is Freedom sure | R |
| Wherefore through them we stand | S |
| From all but sloth and pride secure | R |
| In a delightsome land | S |
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| Then fretful murmur not they gave | T |
| So great a charge to keep | U |
| Nor dream that awestruck Time shall save | T |
| Their labour while we sleep | U |
| Dear bought and clear a thousand year | V |
| Our fathers' title runs | W |
| Make we likewise their sacrifice | N |
| Defrauding not our sons | W |
Rudyard Kipling
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