Jubilee Before Revolution'by W. M. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEFFGGFHDDIIJJDD| Tell me O Muse of the Shifty the Man who wandered afar | A |
| So have I chanted of late and of Troy burg wasted of war | B |
| Now of the sorrows of Menfolk that fifty years have been | C |
| Now of the Grace of the Commune I sing and the days of a Queen | D |
| Surely I curse rich Menfolk the Wights of the Whirlwind may they | E |
| This is my style of translating Greek text snatch them away | E |
| The Rich Thieves rolling in wealth that make profit of labouring men | F |
| Surely the Wights of the Whirlwind shall swallow them quick in their den | F |
| O baneful O wit straying in the Burg of London ye dwell | G |
| And ever of Profits and three per cent are the tales ye tell | G |
| But the stark strong Polyphemus shall answer you back again | F |
| Him whom No man slayeth by guile and not by main | H |
| By main I mean main force if aught at all do I mean | D |
| In the Greek of the blindfold Bard it is simpler the sense to glean | D |
| You Polyphemus shall swallow and fill his mighty maw | I |
| What time he maketh an end of the Priests the Police and the Law | I |
| And then ah who shall purchase the poems of old that I sang | J |
| Who shall pay twelve and six for an epic in Saga slang | J |
| But perchance even Hermes the Flitter could scarcely expound what I mean | D |
| And I trow that another were fitter to sing you a song for a Queen | D |
Andrew Lang
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