The White Man's Burden Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE AGHGIJKJ ALALMNON APHPHNQN ANHNHNRN ASTDHNFN AUIUNVTVTake up the White man's burden | A |
Send forth the best ye breed | B |
Go bind your sons to exile | C |
To serve your captives' need | B |
To wait in heavy harness | D |
On fluttered folk and wild | E |
Your new caught sullen peoples | F |
Half devil and half child | E |
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Take up the White Man's burden | A |
In patience to abide | G |
To veil the threat of terror | H |
And check the show of pride | G |
By open speech and simple | I |
An hundred times mad plain | J |
To seek another's profit | K |
And work another's gain | J |
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Take up the White Man's burden | A |
The savage wars of peace | L |
Fill full the mouth of Famine | A |
And bid the sickness cease | L |
And when your goal is nearest | M |
The end for others sought | N |
Watch Sloth and heathen Folly | O |
Bring all your hope to nought | N |
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Take up the White Man's burden | A |
No tawdry rule of kings | P |
But toil of serf and sweeper | H |
The tale of common things | P |
The ports ye shall not enter | H |
The roads ye shall not tread | N |
Go make them with your living | Q |
And mark them with your dead | N |
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Take up the White man's burden | A |
And reap his old reward | N |
The blame of those ye better | H |
The hate of those ye guard | N |
The cry of hosts ye humour | H |
Ah slowly toward the light | N |
quot Why brought ye us from bondage | R |
quot Our loved Egyptian night quot | N |
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Take up the White Man's burden | A |
Ye dare not stoop to less | S |
Nor call too loud on freedom | T |
To cloak your weariness | D |
By all ye cry or whisper | H |
By all ye leave or do | N |
The silent sullen peoples | F |
Shall weigh your Gods and you | N |
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Take up the White Man's burden | A |
Have done with childish days | U |
The lightly proffered laurel | I |
The easy ungrudged praise | U |
Comes now to search your manhood | N |
Through all the thankless years | V |
Cold edged with dear bought wisdom | T |
The judgment of your peers | V |
Rudyard Kipling
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