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 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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