The Native Born Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDF GHIHJKKK KLKLMNBN KHKHMOKO PKKKPLKL QRSSR KKKKHTDT QRSSR HUPURVBV BWKBXYBY KZYZYA2YA2 MKBKKB2YB2 BYBYMFMF QBYYRKFC2YFA | |
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We've drunk to the Queen God bless her | B |
We've drunk to our mothers' land | C |
We've drunk to our English brother | B |
But he does not understand | C |
We've drunk to the wide creation | D |
And the Cross swings low for the mom | E |
Last toast and of Obligation | D |
A health to the Native born | F |
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They change their skies above them | G |
But not their hearts that roam | H |
We learned from our wistful mothers | I |
To call old England 'home' | H |
We read of the English skylark | J |
Of the spring in the English lanes | K |
But we screamed with the painted lories | K |
As we rode on the dusty plains | K |
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They passed with their old world legends | K |
Their tales of wrong and dearth | L |
Our fathers held by purchase | K |
But we by the right of birth | L |
Our heart's where they rocked our cradle | M |
Our love where we spent our toil | N |
And our faith and our hope and our honour | B |
We pledge to our native soil | N |
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I charge you charge your glasses | K |
I charge you drink with me | H |
To the men of the Four New Nations | K |
And the Islands of the Sea | H |
To the last least lump of coral | M |
That none may stand outside | O |
And our own good pride shall teach us | K |
To praise our comrade's pride | O |
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To the hush of the breathless morning | P |
On the thin tin crackling roofs | K |
To the haze of the burned back ranges | K |
And the dust of the shoeless hoofs | K |
To the risk of a death by drowning | P |
To the risk of a death by drouth | L |
To the men ef a million acres | K |
To the Sons of the Golden South | L |
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To the Sons of the Golden South Stand up | Q |
And the life we live and know | R |
Let a felow sing o' the little things he cares about | S |
If a fellow fights for the little things he cares about | S |
With the weight o a single blow | R |
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To the smoke of a hundred coasters | K |
To the sheep on a thousand hills | K |
To the sun that never blisters | K |
To the rain that never chills | K |
To the land of the waiting springtime | H |
To our five meal meat fed men | T |
To the tall deep bosomed women | D |
And the children nine and ten | T |
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And the children nine and ten Stand up | Q |
And the life we live and know | R |
Let a fellow sing o' the little things he cares about | S |
If a fellow fights for the little things he cares about | S |
With the weight of a two fold blow | R |
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To the far flung fenceless prairie | H |
Where the quick cloud shadows trail | U |
To our neighbours' barn in the offing | P |
And the line of the new cut rail | U |
To the plough in her league long furrow | R |
With the grey Lake' gulls behind | V |
To the weight of a half year's winter | B |
And the warm wet western wind | V |
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To the home of the floods and thunder | B |
To her pale dry healing blue | W |
To the lift of the great Cape combers | K |
And the smell of the baked Karroo | B |
To the growl of the sluicing stamp head | X |
To the reef and the water gold | Y |
To the last and the largest Empire | B |
To the map that is half unrolled | Y |
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To our dear dark foster mothers | K |
To the heathen songs they sung | Z |
To the heathen speech we babbled | Y |
Ere we came to the white man's tongue | Z |
To the cool of our deep verandah | Y |
To the blaze of our jewelled main | A2 |
To the night to the palms in the moonlight | Y |
And the fire fly in the cane | A2 |
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To the hearth of Our People's People | M |
To her well ploughed windy sea | K |
To the hush of our dread high altar | B |
Where The Abbey makes us We | K |
To the grist of the slow ground ages | K |
To the gain that is yours and mine | B2 |
To the Bank of the Open Credit | Y |
To the Power house of the Line | B2 |
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We've drunk to the Queen God bless her | B |
We've drunk to our mothers'land | Y |
We've drunk to our English brother | B |
And we hope he'll understand | Y |
We've drunk as much as we're able | M |
And the Cross swings low for the morn | F |
Last toast and your foot on the table | M |
A health to the Native born | F |
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A health to the Nativeborn Stand up | Q |
We're six white men arow | B |
All bound to sing o' the Little things we care about | Y |
All bound to fight for the Little things we care about | Y |
With the weight of a six fold blow | R |
By the might of our Cable tow Take hands | K |
From the Orkneys to the Horn | F |
All round the world and a Little loop to pull it by | C2 |
All round the world and a Little strap to buckle it | Y |
A health to the Native born | F |
Rudyard Kipling
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