The White Man's Burden Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE AGHGIJKJ ALALMNON APHPHNQN ANHNHNRN ASTDHNFN AUIUNVTV

Take up the White man's burdenA
Send forth the best ye breedB
Go bind your sons to exileC
To serve your captives' needB
To wait in heavy harnessD
On fluttered folk and wildE
Your new caught sullen peoplesF
Half devil and half childE
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Take up the White Man's burdenA
In patience to abideG
To veil the threat of terrorH
And check the show of prideG
By open speech and simpleI
An hundred times mad plainJ
To seek another's profitK
And work another's gainJ
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Take up the White Man's burdenA
The savage wars of peaceL
Fill full the mouth of FamineA
And bid the sickness ceaseL
And when your goal is nearestM
The end for others soughtN
Watch Sloth and heathen FollyO
Bring all your hope to noughtN
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Take up the White Man's burdenA
No tawdry rule of kingsP
But toil of serf and sweeperH
The tale of common thingsP
The ports ye shall not enterH
The roads ye shall not treadN
Go make them with your livingQ
And mark them with your deadN
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Take up the White man's burdenA
And reap his old rewardN
The blame of those ye betterH
The hate of those ye guardN
The cry of hosts ye humourH
Ah slowly toward the lightN
quot Why brought ye us from bondageR
quot Our loved Egyptian night quotN
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Take up the White Man's burdenA
Ye dare not stoop to lessS
Nor call too loud on freedomT
To cloak your wearinessD
By all ye cry or whisperH
By all ye leave or doN
The silent sullen peoplesF
Shall weigh your Gods and youN
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Take up the White Man's burdenA
Have done with childish daysU
The lightly proffered laurelI
The easy ungrudged praiseU
Comes now to search your manhoodN
Through all the thankless yearsV
Cold edged with dear bought wisdomT
The judgment of your peersV

Rudyard Kipling



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