On The Birth-day Of Queen Katherine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EECCFFEECCCCGG| While yet it was the Empire of the Night | A |
| And Stars still check'r'd Darkness with their Light | A |
| From Temples round the cheerful Bells did ring | B |
| But with the Peales a churlish Storm did sing | B |
| I slumbr'd and the Heavens like things did show | C |
| Like things which I had seen and heard below | C |
| Playing on Harps Angels did singing fly | D |
| But through a cloudy and a troubl'd Sky | D |
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| Some fixt a Throne and Royal Robes display'd | E |
| And then a Massie Cross upon it laid | E |
| I wept and earnestly implor'd to know | C |
| Why Royal Ensigns were disposed so | C |
| An Angel said The Emblem thou hast seen | F |
| Denotes the Birth Day of a Saint and Queen | F |
| Ah Glorious Minister I then reply'd | E |
| Goodness and Bliss together do reside | E |
| In Heaven and thee why then on Earth below | C |
| These two combin'd so rarely do we know | C |
| He said Heaven so decrees and such a Sable Morne | C |
| Was that in which the Son of God was borne | C |
| Then Mortal wipe thine Eyes and cease to rave | G |
| God darkn'd Heaven when He the World did save | G |
Anne Killigrew
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