The Native Born Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDF GHIHJKKK KLKLMNBN KHKHMOKO PKKKPLKL QRSSR KKKKHTDT QRSSR HUPURVBV BWKBXYBY KZYZYA2YA2 MKBKKB2YB2 BYBYMFMF QBYYRKFC2YF

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We've drunk to the Queen God bless herB
We've drunk to our mothers' landC
We've drunk to our English brotherB
But he does not understandC
We've drunk to the wide creationD
And the Cross swings low for the momE
Last toast and of ObligationD
A health to the Native bornF
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They change their skies above themG
But not their hearts that roamH
We learned from our wistful mothersI
To call old England 'home'H
We read of the English skylarkJ
Of the spring in the English lanesK
But we screamed with the painted loriesK
As we rode on the dusty plainsK
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They passed with their old world legendsK
Their tales of wrong and dearthL
Our fathers held by purchaseK
But we by the right of birthL
Our heart's where they rocked our cradleM
Our love where we spent our toilN
And our faith and our hope and our honourB
We pledge to our native soilN
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I charge you charge your glassesK
I charge you drink with meH
To the men of the Four New NationsK
And the Islands of the SeaH
To the last least lump of coralM
That none may stand outsideO
And our own good pride shall teach usK
To praise our comrade's prideO
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To the hush of the breathless morningP
On the thin tin crackling roofsK
To the haze of the burned back rangesK
And the dust of the shoeless hoofsK
To the risk of a death by drowningP
To the risk of a death by drouthL
To the men ef a million acresK
To the Sons of the Golden SouthL
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To the Sons of the Golden South Stand upQ
And the life we live and knowR
Let a felow sing o' the little things he cares aboutS
If a fellow fights for the little things he cares aboutS
With the weight o a single blowR
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To the smoke of a hundred coastersK
To the sheep on a thousand hillsK
To the sun that never blistersK
To the rain that never chillsK
To the land of the waiting springtimeH
To our five meal meat fed menT
To the tall deep bosomed womenD
And the children nine and tenT
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And the children nine and ten Stand upQ
And the life we live and knowR
Let a fellow sing o' the little things he cares aboutS
If a fellow fights for the little things he cares aboutS
With the weight of a two fold blowR
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To the far flung fenceless prairieH
Where the quick cloud shadows trailU
To our neighbours' barn in the offingP
And the line of the new cut railU
To the plough in her league long furrowR
With the grey Lake' gulls behindV
To the weight of a half year's winterB
And the warm wet western windV
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To the home of the floods and thunderB
To her pale dry healing blueW
To the lift of the great Cape combersK
And the smell of the baked KarrooB
To the growl of the sluicing stamp headX
To the reef and the water goldY
To the last and the largest EmpireB
To the map that is half unrolledY
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To our dear dark foster mothersK
To the heathen songs they sungZ
To the heathen speech we babbledY
Ere we came to the white man's tongueZ
To the cool of our deep verandahY
To the blaze of our jewelled mainA2
To the night to the palms in the moonlightY
And the fire fly in the caneA2
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To the hearth of Our People's PeopleM
To her well ploughed windy seaK
To the hush of our dread high altarB
Where The Abbey makes us WeK
To the grist of the slow ground agesK
To the gain that is yours and mineB2
To the Bank of the Open CreditY
To the Power house of the LineB2
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We've drunk to the Queen God bless herB
We've drunk to our mothers'landY
We've drunk to our English brotherB
And we hope he'll understandY
We've drunk as much as we're ableM
And the Cross swings low for the mornF
Last toast and your foot on the tableM
A health to the Native bornF
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A health to the Nativeborn Stand upQ
We're six white men arowB
All bound to sing o' the Little things we care aboutY
All bound to fight for the Little things we care aboutY
With the weight of a six fold blowR
By the might of our Cable tow Take handsK
From the Orkneys to the HornF
All round the world and a Little loop to pull it byC2
All round the world and a Little strap to buckle itY
A health to the Native bornF

Rudyard Kipling



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