The Stranger Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDB EFGFHF IJKLMN EOPOQO RSRSTS| The Stranger within my gate | A |
| He may be true or kind | B |
| But he does not talk my talk | C |
| I cannot feel his mind | B |
| I see the face and the eyes and the mouth | D |
| But not the soul behind | B |
| - | |
| The men of my own stock | E |
| They may do ill or well | F |
| But they tell the lies I am wanted to | G |
| They are used to the lies I tell | F |
| And we do not need interpreters | H |
| When we go to buy or sell | F |
| - | |
| The Stranger within my gates | I |
| He may be evil or good | J |
| But I cannot tell what powers control | K |
| What reasons sway his mood | L |
| Nor when the Gods of his far off land | M |
| Shall repossess his blood | N |
| - | |
| The men of my own stock | E |
| Bitter bad they may be | O |
| But at least they hear the things I hear | P |
| And see the things I see | O |
| And whatever I think of them and their likes | Q |
| They think of the likes of me | O |
| - | |
| This was my father's belief | R |
| And this is also mine | S |
| Let the corn be all one sheaf | R |
| And the grapes be all one vine | S |
| Ere our children's teeth are set on edge | T |
| By bitter bread and wine | S |
Rudyard Kipling
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