The Song Of The Cities Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC D EFEF G HIHI J KLKM N KOKO P QAQA R STST U VWVW D XYXY Z A2B2A2B2 C2 D2SD2S E2 F2GG2H2 I2 J2K2J2K2 L2 M2J2M2J2 N2 L2J2L2J2| BOMBAY | A |
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| Royal and Dower royal I the Queen | B |
| Fronting thy richest sea with richer hands | C |
| A thousand mills roar through me where I glean | B |
| All races from all lands | C |
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| CALCUTTA | D |
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| Me the Sea captain loved the River built | E |
| Wealth sought and Kings adventured life to hold | F |
| Hail England I am Asia Power on silt | E |
| Death in my hands but Gold | F |
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| MADRAS | G |
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| Clive kissed me on the mouth and eyes and brow | H |
| Wonderful kisses so that I became | I |
| Crowned above Queens a withered beldame now | H |
| Brooding on ancient fame | I |
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| RANGOON | J |
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| Hail Mother Do they call me rich in trade | K |
| Little care I but hear the shorn priest drone | L |
| And watch my silk clad lovers man by maid | K |
| Laugh 'neath my Shwe Dagon | M |
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| SINGAPORE | N |
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| Hail Mother East and West must seek my aid | K |
| Ere the spent gear may dare the ports afar | O |
| The second doorway of the wide world's trade | K |
| Is mine to loose or bar | O |
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| HONG KONG | P |
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| Hail Mother Hold me fast my Praya sleeps | Q |
| Under innumerable keels to day | A |
| Yet guard and landward or to morrow sweeps | Q |
| Thy war ships down the bay | A |
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| HALIFAX | R |
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| Into the mist my guardian prows put forth | S |
| Behind the mist my virgin ramparts lie | T |
| The Warden of the Honour of the North | S |
| Sleepless and veiled am I | T |
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| QUEBEC AND MONTREAL | U |
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| Peace is our portion Yet a whisper rose | V |
| Foolish and causeless half in jest half hate | W |
| Now wake we and remember mighty blows | V |
| And fearing no man wait | W |
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| VICTORIA | D |
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| From East to West the circling word has passed | X |
| Till West is East beside our land locked blue | Y |
| From East to West the tested chain holds fast | X |
| The well forged link rings true | Y |
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| CAPE TOWN | Z |
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| Hail Snatched and bartered oft from hand to hand | A2 |
| I dream my dream by rock and heath and pine | B2 |
| Of Empire to the northward Ay one land | A2 |
| From Lion's Head to Line | B2 |
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| MELBOURNE | C2 |
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| Greeting Nor fear nor favour won us place | D2 |
| Got between greed of gold and dread of drouth | S |
| Loud voiced and reckless as the wild tide race | D2 |
| That whips our harbour mouth | S |
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| SYDNEY | E2 |
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| Greeting My birth stain have I turned to good | F2 |
| Forcing strong wills perverse to steadfastness | G |
| The first flush of the tropics in my blood | G2 |
| And at my feet Success | H2 |
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| BRISBANE | I2 |
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| The northern stirp beneath the southern skies | J2 |
| I build a Nation for an Empire's need | K2 |
| Suffer a little and my land shall rise | J2 |
| Queen over lands indeed | K2 |
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| HOBART | L2 |
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| Man's love first found me man's hate made me Hell | M2 |
| For my babes' sake I cleansed those infamies | J2 |
| Earnest for leave to live and labour well | M2 |
| God flung me peace and ease | J2 |
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| AUCKLAND | N2 |
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| Last loneliest loveliest exquisite apart | L2 |
| On us on us the unswerving season smiles | J2 |
| Who wonder 'mid our fern why men depart | L2 |
| To seek the Happy Isles | J2 |
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