Clear The Way! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABBBCCCADAEEEDDDAA A| Clear the way my lords and lackeys you have had your day | A |
| Here you have your answer England's yea against your nay | A |
| Long enough your house has held you up and clear the way | A |
| Lust and falsehood craft and traffic precedent and gold | B |
| Tongue of courtier kiss of harlot promise bought and sold | B |
| Gave you heritage of empire over thralls of old | B |
| Now that all these things are rotten all their gold is rust | C |
| Quenched the pride they lived by dead the faith and cold the lust | C |
| Shall their heritage not also turn again to dust | C |
| By the grace of these they reigned who left their sons their sway | A |
| By the grace of these what England says her lords unsay | D |
| Till at last her cry go forth against them Clear the way | A |
| By the grace of trust in treason knaves have lived and lied | E |
| By the force of fear and folly fools have fed their pride | E |
| By the strength of sloth and custom reason stands defied | E |
| Lest perchance your reckoning on some latter day be worse | D |
| Halt and hearken lords of land and princes of the purse | D |
| Ere the tide be full that comes with blessing and with curse | D |
| Where we stand as where you sit scarce falls a sprinkling spray | A |
| But the wind that swells the wave that follows none shall stay | A |
| Spread no more of sail for shipwreck out and clear the way | A |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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