To The City Of Bombay Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCDCA EFEF GHGHGH IAIAIA JAJAJA KLKA MAMAMA NONO APAPPDDP

The Cities are full of prideA
Challenging each to eachB
This from her mountain sideA
That from her burthened beachB
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They count their ships full taleC
Their corn and oil and wineD
Derrick and loom and baleC
And rampart's gun flecked lineD
City by City they hailC
quot Hast aught to match with mine quotA
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And the men that breed from themE
They traffic up and downF
But cling to their cities' hemE
As a child to their mother's gownF
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When they talk with the stranger bandsG
Dazed and newly aloneH
When they walk in the stranger landsG
By roaring streets unknownH
Blessing her where she standsG
For strength above their ownH
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On high to hold her fameI
That stands all fame beyondA
By oath to back the sameI
Most faithful foolish fondA
Making her mere breathed nameI
Their bond upon their bondA
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So thank I God my birthJ
Fell not in isles asideA
Waste headlands of the earthJ
Or warring tribes untriedA
But that she lent me worthJ
And gave me right to prideA
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Surely in toil or frayK
Under an alien skyL
Comfort it is to sayK
quot Of no mean city am I quotA
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Neither by service nor feeM
Come I to mine estateA
Mother of Cities to meM
For I was born in her gateA
Between the palms and the seaM
Where the world end steamers waitA
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Now for this debt I oweN
And for her far borne cheerO
Must I make haste and goN
With tribute to her pierO
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And she shall touch and remitA
After the use of kingsP
Orderly ancient fitA
My deep sea plunderingsP
And purchase in all landsP
And this we do for a signD
Her power is over mineD
And mine I hold at her handsP

Rudyard Kipling



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