Song Of The Wild Bushman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EBFBFFGF HIHIJKLK IMIMABABNB| Let the proud White Man boast his flocks | A |
| And fields of foodful grain | B |
| My home is 'mid the mountain rocks | A |
| The Desert my domain | B |
| I plant no herbs nor pleasant fruits | C |
| I toil not for my cheer | D |
| The Desert yields me juicy roots | C |
| And herds of bounding deer | D |
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| The countless springboks are my flock | E |
| Spread o'er the unbounded plain | B |
| The buffalo bendeth to my yoke | F |
| The wild horse to my rein | B |
| My yoke is the quivering assagai | F |
| My rein the tough bow string | F |
| My bridle curb is a slender barb | G |
| Yet it quells the forest king | F |
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| The crested adder honoureth me | H |
| And yields at my command | I |
| His poison bag like the honey bee | H |
| When I seize him on the sand | I |
| Yea even the wasting locusts' swarm | J |
| Which mighty nations dread | K |
| To me nor terror brings nor harm | L |
| For I make of them my bread | K |
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| Thus I am lord of the Desert Land | I |
| And I will not leave my bounds | M |
| To crouch beneath the Christian's hand | I |
| And kennel with his hounds | M |
| To be a hound and watch the flocks | A |
| For the cruel White Man's gain | B |
| No the brown Serpent of the Rocks | A |
| His den doth yet retain | B |
| And none who there his sting provokes | N |
| Shall find its poison vain | B |
Thomas Pringle
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