Composition

When analyzing a poem, it is always a good idea to start by looking at the overall composition and the way it is structured in terms of stanzas, verses, beginning, subdivision, etc. This manner of analyzing a poem applies to “The Real White Man's Burden” by Ernest Howard Crosby too.

Outer composition

Since “The Real White Man's Burden” is a parody after Rudyard Kipling’s “The White Man's Burden”, you will notice the poems are very similar in terms of outer structure.

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Inner composition

Internally, the poem is a satirical enumeration of the ‘white man’s burdens’   as a colonizing force. Just like Rudyard Kipling, Crosby describes the way colonizers ‘should’ behave.

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