To The City Of Bombay Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCDCA EFEF GHGHGH IAIAIA JAJAJA KLKA MAMAMA NONO APAPPDDPThe Cities are full of pride | A |
Challenging each to each | B |
This from her mountain side | A |
That from her burthened beach | B |
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They count their ships full tale | C |
Their corn and oil and wine | D |
Derrick and loom and bale | C |
And rampart's gun flecked line | D |
City by City they hail | C |
quot Hast aught to match with mine quot | A |
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And the men that breed from them | E |
They traffic up and down | F |
But cling to their cities' hem | E |
As a child to their mother's gown | F |
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When they talk with the stranger bands | G |
Dazed and newly alone | H |
When they walk in the stranger lands | G |
By roaring streets unknown | H |
Blessing her where she stands | G |
For strength above their own | H |
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On high to hold her fame | I |
That stands all fame beyond | A |
By oath to back the same | I |
Most faithful foolish fond | A |
Making her mere breathed name | I |
Their bond upon their bond | A |
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So thank I God my birth | J |
Fell not in isles aside | A |
Waste headlands of the earth | J |
Or warring tribes untried | A |
But that she lent me worth | J |
And gave me right to pride | A |
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Surely in toil or fray | K |
Under an alien sky | L |
Comfort it is to say | K |
quot Of no mean city am I quot | A |
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Neither by service nor fee | M |
Come I to mine estate | A |
Mother of Cities to me | M |
For I was born in her gate | A |
Between the palms and the sea | M |
Where the world end steamers wait | A |
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Now for this debt I owe | N |
And for her far borne cheer | O |
Must I make haste and go | N |
With tribute to her pier | O |
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And she shall touch and remit | A |
After the use of kings | P |
Orderly ancient fit | A |
My deep sea plunderings | P |
And purchase in all lands | P |
And this we do for a sign | D |
Her power is over mine | D |
And mine I hold at her hands | P |
Rudyard Kipling
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