Makanna's Gathering Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDE FGHIJKJL MNMNOPOP JDJDJQJR STSUVWVX DBDCYSYS| Wake Amak sa wake | A |
| And arm yourselves for war | B |
| As coming winds the forest shake | A |
| I hear a sound from far | C |
| It is not thunder in the sky | D |
| Nor lion's roar upon the hill | E |
| But the voice of HIM who sits on high | D |
| And bids me speak his will | E |
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| He bids me call you forth | F |
| Bold sons of K habee | G |
| To sweep the White Men from the earth | H |
| And drive them to the sea | I |
| The sea which heaved them up at first | J |
| For Amak sa's curse and bane | K |
| Howls for the progeny she nurst | J |
| To swallow them again | L |
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| Hark 'tis UHLANGA'S voice | M |
| From Deb 's mountain caves | N |
| He calls you now to make your choice | M |
| To conquer or be slaves | N |
| To meet proud Amangl zi's guns | O |
| And fight like warriors nobly born | P |
| Or like Uml o's feeble sons | O |
| Become the freeman's scorn | P |
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| Then come ye Chieftains bold | J |
| With war plumes waving high | D |
| Come every warrior young and old | J |
| With club and assagai | D |
| Remember how the spoiler's host | J |
| Did through our land like locusts range | Q |
| Your herds your wives your comrades lost | J |
| Remember and revenge | R |
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| Fling your broad shields away | S |
| Bootless against such foes | T |
| But hand to hand we'll fight to day | S |
| And with their bayonets close | U |
| Grasp each man short his stabbing spear | V |
| And when to battle's edge we come | W |
| Rush on their ranks in full career | V |
| And to their hearts strike home | X |
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| Wake Amak sa wake | D |
| And muster for the war | B |
| The wizard wolves from Keisi's brake | D |
| The vultures from afar | C |
| Are gathering at UHLANGA'S call | Y |
| And follow fast our westward way | S |
| For well they know ere evening fall | Y |
| They shall have glorious prey | S |
Thomas Pringle
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