Manliness

If you can dream and not make dreams your master;

If you can think and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with triumph and disaster;

And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can force your heart, and nerve, and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone;

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the will which says to them, “Hold on”.

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds’ worth of distant run,

Yours is the earth and everything that’s in it,

And what is more, you’ll be a man, my son

   -Rudyard Kipling

Figures of Speech:

Alliteration:

If   you can dream and not make dreams your master – m

If   you can think and not make thoughts your aim – t

And   treat those two impostors just the same – t

Except   the will which says to them, “Hold on” – v

With   sixty seconds’ worth of distant run – v, s

And   what is more, you’ll   be a man, my son – m

Metaphor

If   you can meet with triumph and disaster

Personification:

And   treat those two impostors just the same

Oxymoron:

If   you can meet with triumph and disaster

Anaphora:

If   you can dream and   not make dreams your master;

If   you can think and   not make thoughts your aim;

If   you can meet with   triumph and disaster;

Repetition:

If   you can force your heart, and nerve, and sinew

Ellipsis:

If   you can force your   heart, and nerve, and sinew

Rhyme

abab – Master, disaster; aim, same;   minute, it; run, son;