The Settler Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDE FGFGHIHI JKJKLMLM NOPOQRQR STSTIUIS VWVWSXSX YZYZBSBS| South African War ended May | A |
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| Here where my fresh turned furrows run | B |
| And the deep soil glistens red | C |
| I will repair the wrong that was done | B |
| To the living and the dead | C |
| Here where the senseless bullet fell | D |
| And the barren shrapnel burst | E |
| I will plant a tree I will dig a well | D |
| Against the heat and the thirst | E |
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| Here in a large and a sunlit land | F |
| Where no wrong bites to the bone | G |
| I will lay my hand in my neighbour's hand | F |
| And together we will atone | G |
| For the set folly and the red breach | H |
| And the black waste of it all | I |
| Giving and taking counsel each | H |
| Over the cattle kraal | I |
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| Here will we join against our foes | J |
| The hailstroke and the storm | K |
| And the red and rustling cloud that blows | J |
| The locust's mile deep swarm | K |
| Frost and murrain and floods let loose | L |
| Shall launch us side by side | M |
| In the holy wars that have no truce | L |
| 'Twixt seed and harvest tide | M |
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| Earth where we rode to slay or be slain | N |
| Our love shall redeem unto life | O |
| We will gather and lead to her lips again | P |
| The waters of ancient strife | O |
| From the far and fiercely guarded streams | Q |
| And the pools where we lay in wait | R |
| Till the corn cover our evil dreams | Q |
| And the young corn our hate | R |
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| And when we bring old fights to mind | S |
| We will not remember the sin | T |
| If there be blood on his head of my kind | S |
| Or blood on my head of his kin | T |
| For the ungrazed upland the untilled lea | I |
| Cry and the fields forlorn | U |
| quot The dead must bury their dead but ye | I |
| Ye serve an host unborn quot | S |
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| Bless then Our God the new yoked plough | V |
| And the good beasts that draw | W |
| And the bread we eat in the sweat of our brow | V |
| According to Thy Law | W |
| After us cometh a multitude | S |
| Prosper the work of our hands | X |
| That we may feed with our land's food | S |
| The folk of all our lands | X |
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| Here in the waves and the troughs of the plains | Y |
| Where the healing stillness lies | Z |
| And the vast benignant sky restrains | Y |
| And the long days make wise | Z |
| Bless to our use the rain and the sun | B |
| And the blind seed in its bed | S |
| That we may repair the wrong that was done | B |
| To the living and the dead | S |
Rudyard Kipling
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